Nigeria cracking down on e-scams [View All]

[RebelOne]

It's about time that the law starts cracking down and doing something about these crooks.

Monday, August 8, 2005; Posted: 4:50 a.m. EDT (08:50 GMT)

Internet cafes in Lagos warn Nigerians about sending fraudulent e-mail.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Day in, day out, a strapping, amiable 24-year-old who calls himself Kele B. heads to an Internet cafe, hunkers down at a computer and casts his net upon the cyber-waters.

Blithely oblivious to signs on the walls and desks warning of the penalties for Internet fraud, he has sent out tens of thousands of e-mails telling recipients they have won about $6.4 million in a bogus British government "Internet lottery."

"Congratulation! You Are Our Lucky Winner!" it says.

So far, Kele says, he has had only one response. But he claims it paid off handsomely. An American took the bait, he says, and coughed up "fees" and "taxes" of more than $5,000, never to hear from Kele again.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/08/nigeria.scammers.ap/index.html