Send 419 Mail & Go To Jail
A Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two and half years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the country’s biggest e-mail scam case.Amaka Anajemba, one of three suspects in a $242 million fraud involving a Brazilian bank, must return $48.5 million to the bank, hand over $5 million to the government and pay a fine of $15,000 (2 million naira), the country’s antifraud agency said Saturday.
Scams have become so successful in Nigeria that antisleaze campaigners say swindling is one of the country’s main foreign exchange earners after oil, natural gas and cocoa.
Anajemba’s sentencing by a Lagos High Court on Friday is the first major conviction since the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was established in 2003 to crack down on Nigeria’s thriving networks of e-mail fraudsters. [ For Futher Reading]
Source: Zdnet
Well as i said, in my previous post in relation to internet fraud, Nigerians are generally not that sleek as they are said to be. They are just good in the “mail department”, sending u spams and the unfortunate greedy, gullible ones falling from it. The question i always ask is “WHY YOU?“. Why not me? Why not her or him? Well it seems the Nigerian government is taking it very seriously. But the question still remains, Is Fraud from Nigeria almost history?
I have always said that you either have to be GREEDY or STUPID or BOTH to fall for a scam mail of the sort Nigerians send out. Its so plain to see. So the victims got what was coming to them.
I have received scores of those mails (and phone calls). I simply discard them. Easy.
Having said that, I believe that these scammers should find something honest to do with their talents. Some of them would make good writers (of books, drama, and film scripts) if given some training.
Anybody interested in that as a project? My wife and i have given it some thought and are exploring how to go about it. We can do something, if we are willing to try.
Comment by Yomi — 7/19/2005 @ 3:37 pm