RE: Nigerians Arrested in Holland for Internet 419 Scam

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Hey, there's been several Nigerian 419 links in a few
fortean stories:

"LA record producer killed by Nigerian 419 scam ring?"
 http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/25/la_record_producer_k.html

 (Note: he was eventually found after a resident spotted him
  sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans. Whacked.)

"Nigerian scammers used U.S. airbase in Iraq?"
 http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27494

"Nigeria Jails Woman in $242M E-mail Fraud Case"
 http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/07/nigeria-jails-woman-in-242m-e-mail.html

 (Reuters removed the original article, but I have the first
  three paragraphs of the article on my blog.)

That's just a couple of the more interesting ones I found
by searching my blog links. :-)

- ferg


-- "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com> wrote:
Gary wrote:
> Wow.  I never thought that _real_ Nigerians were behind those 
> 419 schemes.  Almost adds an air of legitimacy.

Are you serious? There are cases where victims have been taken to
Nigeria to meet "bank" people and other "officials".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Advance_fee_fraud

"I recall reading a year or so ago at one point the scam income was in
the top 3 re Nigerian GDP income figures"

I remember it being 4th for some reason...not sure where I saw it..and
if it was true. Don't get me wrong, alot of scams are controlled by
non-Nigerians but there is must much than an "air of legitimacy" in the
name sake.

-Todd

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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