Tuesday, October 25, 2005

LA Times Article on Nigerian fraud: "I will eat your dollars"

FESTAC, Nigeria — As patient as fishermen, the young men toil day and night, trawling for replies to the e-mails they shoot to strangers half a world away.

Most recipients hit delete, delete, delete, delete without ever opening the messages that urge them to claim the untold riches of a long-lost deceased second cousin, and the messages that offer millions of dollars to help smuggle loot stolen by a corrupt Nigerian official into a U.S. account.

Read the complete story here

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Gbenga,
Congrats first on becoming the IEE YM Nigeria Chairman. It is well deserved.
Well with regards to the Yahoo boys, i think EFCC need to employ Internet Security Experts, Sincere Plain Police Officers. And other people who are more Internet savy and willing to stamp out this Online 419 Scam syndrome. I have developed keen interest in the activities of these "Yahoo Boys" because of my background in IT Security. I wonder what yahoo is doing about it. Dont the greedy, foolish white folks know the difference between a mail directed to them and a mail randomly sent. Just take a look at the "TO:" address. How about the IP address of the sender, you can take a look at the full headers of the email.

I think its just GREED! Nigerian or American..it is still GREED