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The cost of staying connected in Nigeria
Source:Wired magazine
Internet Café costs:
It costs $0.77 to connect to the internet for one hour, in Nigeria.
This is 28.1% of GDP per capita per day. [May 2006]
Other places...
Paris: $ 4.86 ( =5.9%)
Shanghai: $ 0.62 ( =3.7%)
Moscow: $ 1.50 ( =5.1%)
London: $ 1.78 ( =2.1%)
NYC: $12.80 ( =11.1%)
Who should read this
By the time you have reached this web page, you are probably already familiar with the NIGERIAN 419 SCAM. If not, you should GOOGLE 'nigerian scam' you will find hundreds of very good descriptions of the scam.The scammer invites you to make an amazing profit, merely by helping him or her transfer 20 or 80 millions of dollars out of Nigeria. The scammer will often indicate that he is religious, by closing with "God bless you" etc..
Do you want some fun? Click to fight back What you should do
Have some fun with him ! and write back! ...or begin a conversation.Give the scammer a hint that you have some money saved away. Become a spoofer, a baiter!
Tell the scammer that you want to help. Let on that you appreciate his generous offer, which is usually 10% to 35%. At first, don't tell him your name. Later, don't tell him you real name, or anything real about you, like your bank account number!
He will insist to FAX or phone you, but tell him you prefer only email. It's best to use an alternate email address, one that does not have our real identity attached to it. After a few rounds of email, ask him to send you his picture.
Be nice.
Tell him you can always recognize an honest face -- something like that. Be stupid, gullible, or religious (it's all the same:) but act as if you are careful but a little greedy. Eventually, ask for a little higher percentage cut. Use our imagination.
Later ask him for a second picture, one that will show it's recently taken and has been taken especially as per your request, so that you know it's really he. Don't always be grammatical -- you should seem just a little uneducated, religious, or rich. Use your imagination...
[December 2006]
Here is the real telephone number of a REAL scammer.
Call him. Be inquisitive but somewhat rude, if you can.
He won't mind, he wants your money.The Toll free telephone number is:
1-800-568-8913 It works!Be careful, don't go too far.
Have fun! Remember, you'll be doing others a service:
While these scammers are writing to you to entice you to quick riches, they won't be emailing someone else!
spoof (sp›f) n.
1. Nonsense; tomfoolery. 2. A hoax. 3. A gentle satirical imitation; a light parody. --spoof tr.v. spoofed, spoof·ing, spoofs. 1. To deceive. 2. To do a spoof of; satirize gently. [Origin unknown.] "You should let your readers know that Caller ID blocking does
NOT function with 800 or 9xx numbers. Whoever is on the other end WILL have the number of the caller if they want it. And if they have access to the right databases, they will have name, address, housemates, family members, etc."
Regards, Max Modality on aa419.org
One thing you should do... Write to the Internet Service Provider and tell them the his email service is being used for the Nigerian spam. You don't know the email address if the ISP? No problem. Suppose the Nigerian spammer is using an account such as daniel-chidi2004@uymail.com. (This was a real spammer). Simply forward the message to the spammer's ISP. In this example you would send an email to one or all of these addresses:
ABUSE@uymail.com, WEBMASTER@uymail.com or ROOT@uymail.com
One of these email addresses may catch the attention of someone and they will close the spammer's account. Make sure you include the email Header information in your message. This will give the Nigerian a setback, because he will have to start all over again because he will have lost all of his previous communication / information.
JOIN the FUN !! Correspond with these people !
This came to me BY MISTAKE... It is communication from one Nigerian scammer to his mentor. He accidentally attached this to an email exchange between him and me. These Nigerians work in concert with each other. He really thought he has something -- a correct mugu :
THIS IS HIS LAST MAIL TO ME, AND MY LAST MAIL TO HIM IS UNDER, PLEASE GO THROUGH BOTH TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE STOP FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT NEXT TO TELL HIM FROM HERE. PLEASE MY GUY THIS MAN IS A CORRECT MUGU*, SO WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL WITH HIM, YOU CAN SEE HIS QUESTION SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO ANSWER HIM. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION JUST CALL ME AND I WILL EXPLAIN.
ASK HIM AGAIN WHEN HE WILL BE IN DUBAI TO TAKE DELIVERY OF THE CONSIGNMENT, AND TELL HIM THAT YOU WILL NOW GO AHEAD TO MAKE THE CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP TO HIS NAME, BEFORE ANY OTHER STEP.
* Mugu is a term used by the scammers to describe their intended victims. Roughly translated this term means "big fool". Source: http://baita.mugu.co.uk/
Im Falle eines Falles klebt UHU wirklich Alles.
Don't say glue, say UHU!You'll be doing others a service: While these scammers are writing to you to entice you to quick riches, they won't be emailing someone else!
Victims Recount Their Story "We lost almost $400,000 on this matter. We are just a middle class family, my husband is a physician and I am a nurse. We borrowed money from many different places to pay to these people. Now we lost our credit and everything else..." http://newsletter.sandybay.com/h/N714I5409
Note: Many Nigerian spammers will contact you more than once, using disparate names. Be aware of this.
Webmasters: If you have a related web page, please feel free to link to here. Let me know, and I will reciprocate.
Victims, Spoofers: Emails received will be posted here, with or without name and email address. Rebuttals are accepted, but you must give name and email address.
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006
Subject: Nigerian Scammers
Greetings,
I recently came across your site on the internet. I am currently baiting and toying with a few of these 419 scammers. Anyway I wanted to comment on the section about sending the scammer a virus. I feel that this is a bad idea that will only hurt innocent victims and not the scammer. The reason being that most of these Nigerian scammers don't use their own computers for these scams. Rather they use internet cafes and public computers. So by sending a virus all you do is hurt and innocent business owner and the scammer simply switches to using a computer at a different location.
If you really want to hurt them you should bait them. By this I mean play along with their scam but keep asking questions, making outlandish demands, etc. This way you aggravate them and waste their time. Also another good way is to cost them money. Here are some ways to get them to waste their money:
1) Long international telephone calls. These add up very quickly. Especially when they have to call and leave recordings of prayers and whatnot.
2) Construct elaborate things for the church--if they have to erect a monument to tom cruise or something, its going to cost them a bit of money.
3) Its not free to print things out at a cyber-cafe. Nor is it free to scan them. At the cyber-cafe I frequented when I was in Ghana, printing something out cost the equivalent of 15 cents US
4) Anything that you have them send you costs them big money. Especially if they send it to an out-of-the-way location. Tell them to FedEx express it to some made-up address in a remote area of South America. Get the tracking number. Watch their money as it disappears.
Also I love making them take several trips to Western Union and the like. I tell them I have sent them the money. They go to pick it up and surprise, surprise no money is there for them. I then say, "oops I gave you the wrong MTCN number and give them another number. They go again but again no money. Its fun to see how many times you can send their dumb asses. lol
Real examples -- and replies
Amazon.com 
From: "Outblaze Abuse Desk" <abuse@outblaze.com>
Date: Wed Dec 18, 2002 10:30:06 PM US/Mountain
To: INFO@N0WSCAPE.COM
Subject: This man is using your service to perpetrate the Nigerian scam -- please rely.
Hello
Thank you for contacting the outblaze.com abuse desk.
The account you reported is now terminated, along with today's quota of sundry other Nigerian generals, bankers, engineers, attorneys and relatives of dead dictators.
Outblaze is one of the largest providers of webmail services in the world. As a responsible ISP, we hate spam, and we do not allow our network to be abused by spammers.
There is only one thing that we hate more than spammers - 419 (Nigerian) scam artists abusing our systems.
Please see http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ for more about this well known scam. [...]
We encourage you to use http://www.spamcop.net to send out automated spam complaints, if you face difficulties complaining manually to each
spam you receive.
Thank You
Outblaze Abuse Desk
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:24:54
Subject: Re: What is your spam policy?
From: GO Mail MS <mailms@help.go.com>
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us.
We are sorry that you had a problem with one of our e-mail users. The member is now banned. Thanks for responding with the Go mail address.
Once again we are sorry if this inconvenienced you in any way and appreciate your letting us know about this issue.
Regards,
Matt
GO.com Mail Team
Date:
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:29:45
Subject:
Re: Fwd: RE: ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC (KMM1220796V43777L0KM)
From:
"Yahoo!Mail" <abuse@yahoo.com>
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care. In this particular case, and based upon similar reports, we have taken appropriate action against the Yahoo! account in question, as per our Terms of Service.Due to security restrictions of our custom messaging system, we request that you simply forward a copy of the message on to us as opposed to sending it in an attachment. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
Regards,
Yahoo! Customer Care
From: "MSN Hotmail Customer Support" <abuse_en_wh_hyd@css.one.microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:00:10
Hello,
Thank you for writing to Hotmail Support about the spam you received. I am Dinesh and I look forward to assist you today.
I appreciate you for bringing this spam report to our notice. I have closed the account igiligi@hotmail.com you reported in accordance with the Hotmail Terms of Use (TOU). It is a strict violation of the TOU for our members to send objectionable material of any kind or nature using our service.
You can view our rules and regulations at: http://privacy.msn.com/tou/default.asp.
If you have further questions, please contact us.
Sincerely,
Dinesh
MSN Hotmail Technical Support Representative
From: <[...]@newmail.ru>
Subject: BRANCH NO:47, CHING TAIO E.ROAD
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:45:48 +0400
Hi!
I read texts on a site
http://nowscape.com/suck/NIGERIAN_SCAM_Mohammed_Abacha.htm
How you think, what me has forced to read machine translations of this correspondence?It that on this site I have got through the search machine organized on a
server yahoo.com by inquiry TAIWAN CHENG CHUNG BRANCH NO:47, CHING TAIO E.ROAD.Names, e-mail, phone numbers, all miscellaneous and for single using but, eventually, all is reduced to these ill-starred bank essential elements.
In my case it not 80 million and not Bank Kajmana. Only the circuit all the same, «you should pay what to take advantage of the money». I would like to learn, who really stands up for this account to spit to it in an eye. If you
have real reasons as it to make, I shall share the information. I while keep confidential attitudes with this Nigerian and I wait for the help as to me to act.By the way, the interesting detail which I have noticed in figure Nigerian_Scam_Cayman_Bank_bldg_enhanced.jpg . "ÁÀÁÓØÊÈÍÑÊÀß" is a name of station of the underground in Moscow if to me does not change memory. And painted over with yellow color above two details presumably it "M" and "M" the Moscow Metro.
I expect interested persons.
Alexandr
BELARUS
Email to Yahoo
This is the Nigerian 419 scam from Andrew Agbo <a_andrew2@yahoo.com> , after several iterations of email. His original solicitation came form an Italian no-yahoo server, ["ANDREW AGBO"<aandrew@tiscali.dk> ] so I suppose you are not interested in that aspect. Please kill this guy's account or tell me what action, if any, you took. Thanks in advance.
Reply from Yahoo
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005
Yahoo! UK & Ireland Support" <uk-abuse@yahoo-inc.com>
From: "
Hello,
Thanks for writing to Yahoo! UKIE Customer Care.
Thank you for reporting this to Yahoo! It is prohibited to send unsolicited or 'spam' email from a Yahoo! Mail account as agreed by new users when accepting the Yahoo! Terms of Mail Service Agreement.
In this particular case, we have identified the account used to send this email and have taken the appropriate action to prevent it from being used again to send spam mail.
In the future, if you receive an unwanted email message that appears to originate from a Yahoo! Mail account, please forward the message with full headers directly to us at uk-abuse@yahoo-inc.com.
For further information about this specific type of fraud, please see: London Metropolitan Police
Regards,
Customer Care - Yahoo! UK & Ireland
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the named recipient only.
From: servicedesk@timesgroup.com
Indiatimes Servicedesk
Subject:
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback. Your mail has been forwarded to the concerned person. You can be assured of prompt and efficient service. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further clarifications or suggestions.Warm Regards, Indiatimes Service Desk
German Woman Leads Fight Against Nigerian Fraudsters
LAGOS, Nov 23: Five years ago, three Nigerian men tracked Frieda Springer-Beck to her village in Bavaria, put a gun to her head and told her to drop charges against a man she accused of staging an elaborate international fraud.
Now the 54-year-old German woman’s fight against Nigeria’s notorious junk-mail conmen is starting to see results.
Since May, Nigeria’s new anti-fraud unit, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (SFCC), has arrested more than 200 people for junk mail scams, including the man springer-beck says duped her out of 360,000 dollars in 1993.
The so-called 419 scam, named after the article in Nigeria’s criminal code outlawing it, has become so successful over the last 20 years that campaigners say it is now one of the African country’s biggest exports after oil, natural gas and cocoa.
The fraud swindles hundreds of millions of dollars every year from people across the world, who respond to junk e-mails promising them a share of non-existent fortunes in return for an advance fee.
"I know through my own experience how you feel when you say you have been cheated. Nobody is in a position to help you or wants to listen at all," said Springer-Beck, who moved to Lagos last year to push ahead with her campaign.
In 1994 Springer-Beck formed the international Nigerian interest group, an association of fraud victims battling the swindlers through Nigeria’s notoriously slow and corrupt justice system. The association is currently handling 89 cases.
None has led to a conviction and, up until may, the association had brought about only one arrest.
Nigeria’s inaction over the fraud helped earn it the dubious distinction of the world’s second most corrupt country after Bangladesh from the sleaze watchdog transparency international.
Nuhu Ribadu, who heads the EFCC, said property worth 200 million dollars has now been confiscated in connection with more than 30 cases now before Court.
A member of Parliament was among those arrested, and others are being held for the biggest ever 419 swindle, which was worth 180 million dollars and brought down a Brazilian bank.
"Our intention is to bring them to justice for the first time...To return the money to the victims," said Ribadu.
"419 has destroyed the credibility of our country. As a result of this it is almost impossible to do business. No one takes us seriously," he said.
Springer-Beck’s own 419 saga began in 1993, when a letter arrived for her recently deceased husband asking him to come to Nigeria to collect his interest on an investment in a Nigerian electricity plant.
She got in touch with the author of the letter, who recommended a lawyer to help her get all the information she needed. She took on the lawyer only after checking his credentials with the German embassy.
On her first of several trips to Lagos, Springer-Beck was taken to what she thought were the offices of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Officials presented her with documents displaying her late husband’s letterhead, showing he had invested a large, but undisclosed, amount of money in the country.
"Today I know it was the building in front of the Central Bank of Nigeria," she said, adding that she was fooled by security guards wearing CBN uniforms at the gate.
Although doubtful at first, she eventually paid her lawyer the 360,000 dollars he requested as a down-payment for staking her claim to the investment. After five months she realised she had fallen victim to a scam.
In August 1993, she tracked the alleged fraudster to his home in downtown Lagos and confronted him.
"He laughed at me, called me a snake," she said. "I told him if you don’t give me back my money I will find a way you will never forget me."
In 1995 the lawyer was arrested and held on remand for two years only to be released without standing trial, and the case has been adjourned repeatedly since.
But in May this year, he was arrested again by the newly created EFCC, and charged with defrauding a Dutchman of 1.7 million dollars.
Springer-Beck is optimistic.
"The cases will be successful. It is only a matter of time. You can’t change things at once which grew up over 20 years." (AGENCIES)Source: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/03nov24/inter.htm#1
News --
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Fri Oct 7 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The inventor of artificial testicles for dogs, Nigerian Internet scammers and a team that calculated the pressures created when penguins poop won Ig Nobel prizes for 2005 on Thursday."Literature" -- The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, "for creating
and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus
introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General
Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq."
The scams are notorious for asking people to reveal their private bank
information to help fictitious characters transfer large sums of money.
Dog testicles, penguin poop study win Ig Nobels - Yahoo! News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051007/sc_nm/ignobels_dc
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