Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:39:38 -0500
From:   Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
To:     cyberia <CYBERIA-L () LISTSERV AOL COM>, Dave <dave () farber net>



http://tinyurl.com/95lt5
Nigerian email scammers jailed 
Mon Nov 21,10:04 AM ET


A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years in prison for their
part in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million, the biggest scam in
Nigerian history, newspapers reported on Saturday.

The sentencing of Emmanuel Nwude to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12
years follows negotiations in which they agreed to plead guilty to 16 of
the 91 original charges, and to forfeit assets worth at least $121.5
million to the victims of the scam.

A third fraudster, Amaka Anajemba, was sentenced to two and a half years
in prison in July after agreeing to return $48.5 million to the Sao
Paolo-based Banco Noroeste S.A., which collapsed after the theft.

"The activities of the accused persons not only led to the collapse of a
bank in a foreign country, but also brought miseries to many innocent
people," Justice Joseph Oyewole was reported as saying.

The fraudsters obtained the money by promising a member of the bank
staff a commission for funding a non-existent contract to build an
airport in Nigeria's capital Abuja.

Scams have become so successful in Nigeria that anti-sleaze campaigners
say swindling is one of the country's main foreign exchange earners
after oil, natural gas and cocoa.

These are the first major convictions achieved by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which was established in 2003 to
crack down on Nigeria's thriving networks of email fraudsters.

Typically fraudsters send out junk e-mails around the world promising
recipients a share in a fortune in return for an advance fee. Those who
pay never receive the promised windfall.

Ranked the world's sixth most corrupt country, according to an index by
Transparency International, Nigeria has given new powers to the EFCC
which is prosecuting about 200 fraud and corruption cases.

The anti-fraud agency has arrested more than 200 junk mail scam suspects
since 2003. It says it has also confiscated property worth $200 million
and secured 10 other convictions.



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