Nigerian Scammers Claim Another Victim

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Nigerian Scammers get Busted

Nigerian Scammers get Busted 07/01/2004 01:58 AM
According to ABC News, the old Nigerian money scam is alive and well. Even with a major raid by the Nigerian government, there are still Nigerian “Kingpins that remain untouchable. The best defense against this sort of scam is in my opinion, a combination of common sense and education on the subject.

Sweet Revenge On Nigerian Scammers

Sweet Revenge On Nigerian Scammers 11/16/2003 03:58 PM

Software To Catch Nigerian 419 Scammers

Software To Catch Nigerian 419 Scammers 06/07/2004 01:56 PM
If you've ever received an email from Nigeria asking for a small sum of money in order to get millions, you know what the 419 scam is. (Or you're still waiting for a lot of money that hasn't quite shown up yet.) The '419' comes from the Nigerian criminal code section against fraud, and to prevent the scams, Nigeria is looking into using software to help track down the scammers by scanning emails for keywords. This brings up plenty of privacy issues over who determines which keywords are used and what is done with the flagged emails. And while this proposal is probably better than passing a completely new law that would probably be ineffective, the enforcement against this scam may be a bit late as scammers have modified their scams and moved to places other than Nigeria. So scams are here to stay, and although one would hope that public education could take away the incentives for scammers, there's a sucker born every minute.

Nigerian scammers 'exploit tsunami
tragedy'

Nigerian scammers 'exploit tsunami
tragedy' 01/04/2005 11:30 PM
ZDNet Australia Jan 5 2005 2:46AM GMT

TTY services used by Nigerian
credit-card scammers

TTY services used by Nigerian
credit-card scammers 04/10/2004 03:46 AM
TTY relay services are phone-banks staffed by operators who take text messages from the TTY terminals used by deaf people and read them aloud into telephones. This lets deaf people order pizzas, and otherwise interact with the hearing telephony world.

Recently, TTY systems have gone web-based: instead of using specialized TTY hardware, deaf people can use a chat interface in a browser window to interact with the operators.

This fact has not escaped Nigerian credit-card scammers. These folks are piping the output of Babelfish and other machine-translation services into the chat interface and directing the operators to place calls to merchants, directing them to ship goods paid for with stolen credit card numbers to mail-drops.

Merchants stand to lose big if they fall for the ruse - callers often try to order more than $10,000 worth of expensive equipment. People who legitimately use the service fear businesses will stop taking their calls, thinking they are fraud artists...

The only possible beneficiaries are the successful scammers - profiting from free phone calls intended for deaf people - and the four phone companies that provide Internet relay service. They are paid for the calls by the minute.

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Law Professor With Three Doctorates
Tricked By Nigerian Scammers

Law Professor With Three Doctorates
Tricked By Nigerian Scammers 01/06/2005 07:34 PM
If anything is clear, it's that the details of this case are not made clear by the AP article about it. However, it appears that a Miami law professor with three doctorates (they don't say what those doctorates are in) was clearly duped in part of a Nigerian scam. The professor continues to disclaim all responsibility saying he was tricked by "the Nigerian government," when it's pretty clear that the tricking was done by scammers who were probably not associated with the government. It also doesn't explain why the professor didn't question why the Nigerian government apparently needed him to deposit a $1.68 million check into his personal account and wire the money on to them. The guy was obviously suckered by the promise of an easy $200,000 (like all other Nigerian scam victims) and tossed any skepticism right out the window. What's not clear from the article, however, is how this scam really worked. It involves Penske, the trucking company, who apparently sent out a $1.68 million check to buy trucks. It's not clear where that check went. That's not explained. Instead, somehow, somewhere, a new, counterfeit check, in the same amount, went from Penske to this professor, starting the process. Penske is now suing Fleet bank and a credit union for letting this happen -- but there are plenty of other questions about how this all happened in the first place. It sounds like someone took the original check for the trucks and altered it, or copied it, replacing the truck company with the professor. If so, then Penske shouldn't be going after the banks, but whoever altered the check and those who ran the scam.

Spanish cyberkiosks claim second victim

Spanish cyberkiosks claim second victim 12/11/2003 07:23 AM
Middle-aged woman in harrowing terror ordeal

A Nigerian computer, thank God

A Nigerian computer, thank God 03/28/2005 03:23 AM
Nigeria Guardian Mar 28 2005 6:20AM GMT

Scammers Going To Jail

Scammers Going To Jail 05/18/2004 11:52 AM
It looks like some internet scammers are finally getting some serious jailtime. A man who was caught running a phishing scam has just been sentenced to 46 months in prison. Meanwhile, the guy who conned lots of Wall Street insiders out of half a million dollars by telling them he was sellin g pre-IPO shares in Google has entered a guilty plea in the case, and now faces 51 to 63 months in jail. I have no problem putting such obvious scammers in jail for breaking the law. I do wonder, however, if the punishment really fits the crime.

New IE bug may be scammers best friend

New IE bug may be scammers best friend 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 0:24AM ET

16 scammers fined Β£1.3m

16 scammers fined Β£1.3m 04/01/2005 11:17 AM
Premium rate watchdog acts

Microsoft goes after Scammers

Microsoft goes after Scammers 04/03/2005 03:56 PM
About Apr 3 2005 7:45PM GMT

HotJobs For Scammers!

HotJobs For Scammers! 05/17/2004 04:36 AM
We first posted about scammers (often those same Eastern European organized crime groups who are having so much fun with spam and phishing operations) using job boards like Monster and HotJobs to recruit suckers to launder money for them a year ago. Now, however, the NY Times has picked up on the story and it looks like (as these things are known to do) the scam has changed a bit. Last year, the scammers would hire unsuspecting rubes to ship packages to Eastern Europe. They would claim to be a shipping company that was hiring people in the US in their spare time to pass on the packages. Lots of people fell for it. The latest trick, though, is for the scammers to claim to be software companies in Eastern Europe looking to accept payments from US customers - and thus, in need of someone in the US to handle their "payment processing." They post these ads on the job boards and when people answer them, they're expected to receive payments into their personal PayPal account and then send the money to Eastern Europe. Of course, what happens is that PayPal/eBay eventually notices an awful lot of money going into this account and is alerted that it's from stolen credit cards. The sucker who's been passing on the money is told they need to pay it back to PayPal while the folks in Eastern Europe invest in more ads on these job boards. The article mostly focuses on the fact that those tricked are angry at the job websites for not protecting them against such frauds. Some are worried that these types of frauds may end up damaging the reputations of the job sites. While that is a risk, I still can't believe anyone would ever agree to process payments into their personal account and send it on to Eastern Europe without suspecting something was not right.

Nigerian state of emergency

Nigerian state of emergency 05/18/2004 05:57 AM
President Obasanjo suspends the governor of Plateau State, to prevent "mutual genocide".

"Nigerian" Spammer Arrested

"Nigerian" Spammer Arrested 11/06/2003 05:04 PM

Second Nigerian minister sacked

Second Nigerian minister sacked 04/04/2005 01:22 PM
Nigeria's president sacks his housing minister in an anti-corruption drive that saw another minister leave last month.

"Nigerian E-Mail scams "

"Nigerian E-Mail scams " 07/14/2004 10:18 PM

Text scammers fined £450,000

Text scammers fined £450,000 05/24/2004 10:32 AM
'Justice has been done' says UK e-minister

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers 05/02/2004 07:46 PM

More on Scammers Abusing TTY Services

More on Scammers Abusing TTY Services 04/15/2004 01:00 PM

Spammers, Miscreants, Scammers, Etc

Spammers, Miscreants, Scammers, Etc 12/30/2003 01:23 AM
How on earth are we supposed to be able to believe anything we see on the internet, including message coming from our ISP’s, Friends, FAMILY ? Scammers, and Spammers have take over nearly every type of communication we have, including...

BT cuts off dialler scammers

BT cuts off dialler scammers 06/30/2004 11:09 AM
Pull the plug first, ask questions later...

Scammers use Gmail invit

Scammers use Gmail invit 09/15/2004 02:59 PM
Techzonez Sep 15 2004 6:44PM GMT

Nigeria Arrests 419 Scammers

Nigeria Arrests 419 Scammers 07/06/2004 01:42 PM

Nigeria arrests 500 suspected email scammers: Nigeria finally took some action on 419 scammers. I hereby retract this post.

Nigeria's agency against economic and financial crime said Monday that it had detained more than 500 suspects and seized property worth more than $US500 million from suspected fraudsters.

[...] The EFCC had demonstrated its resolve and commitment by arresting many previously "untouchable 419 kingpins", said Ribadu, a former senior police intelligence officer.

Although the identities of those in EFCC custody are not formally revealed, observers noted that they included legislators, lawyers, politicians, bankers and public functionaries.

A couple points to note here. First, look at the type of people arrested: lawyers, legislators (!), politicians, etc. Nice. Second, they seized $500 million? 419 scamming was evidently going well for these folks.

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Microsoft Sues 117 Scammers

Microsoft Sues 117 Scammers 04/02/2005 08:31 PM
CIO Today Apr 3 2005 12:49AM GMT

Baiting 419 Scammers For Sport

Baiting 419 Scammers For Sport 11/17/2003 04:17 AM
There have been an increasing number of "filler" stories from reporters who need something to write about and notice a 419 scam email in their inbox and decide to write the scammer back. Either these reporters don't realize that this article has been written 100 times before, or they just don't care. However, a group of other folks have decided that instead of using the experience to write up an article, they're going to do their best to publicly humiliate 419 scammers. It's turned into something of a sport for many - who create elaborate personas and stories in order to scam the 419ers themselves. Of course, they're trying to trick them out of their dignity, rather than their money.

Curfew declared in Nigerian city

Curfew declared in Nigerian city 05/11/2004 11:47 PM
Kano spends a night under curfew as police struggle to stem violence by Muslims seeking to avenge a massacre.

Free Software As Nigerian Scam

Free Software As Nigerian Scam 11/04/2003 11:40 PM

Nigerian 419ers surface in Baghdad

Nigerian 419ers surface in Baghdad 12/23/2003 08:23 AM
Urgent assistance required to relocate Saddam's millions

Nigerian city calm after rioting

Nigerian city calm after rioting 05/12/2004 05:11 PM
At least 30 people are reported to have been killed after two days of violence in the northern town of Kano.

Nigerian Scam as comment spam

Nigerian Scam as comment spam 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Nigeria scammers using comment spamming to fish for fools is certanly a new and "novel" approach. Hopefully anyone reading this post will understand exactly what kind of a scam this is.

Nigerian email con men fall into their
targets' net

Nigerian email con men fall into their
targets' net 11/17/2003 06:58 AM
Scamming back the Nigerian email scammers .. Guardian UK on Nigerian counter-scammers

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Internet standards of Nigerian
newspapers

Internet standards of Nigerian
newspapers 08/29/2004 11:16 PM
Nigeria Guardian Aug 30 2004 3:29AM GMT

Pensioner accused of AUS $5m Nigerian
scam

Pensioner accused of AUS $5m Nigerian
scam 10/31/2003 10:35 AM
'I am the Australian headquarters for those scams'

Nigerian Swallows 160 Bags of Cocaine
(AP)

Nigerian Swallows 160 Bags of Cocaine
(AP) 06/14/2004 11:22 AM
AP - A smuggler swallowed 3.5 pounds of cocaine to avoid detection but was caught in southern Norway nevertheless, the customs service said Monday.

Nigerian speaker falls over graft

Nigerian speaker falls over graft 04/05/2005 07:05 AM
Nigeria's third-most powerful politician - the senate president - resigns over graft allegations.

Nigerian strike deadlock remains

Nigerian strike deadlock remains 06/10/2004 06:36 AM
Petrol stations in big cities begin obeying court orders and lowering prices but a nationwide strike continues.

Nigerian leader rows with clerics

Nigerian leader rows with clerics 05/14/2004 04:55 AM
President Obasanjo calls a Christian leader "a total idiot" as he visits the scene of communal clashes.

Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers

Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers 09/23/2004 05:20 AM

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