Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites 200
Sooner Boomer writes "Nigerian police, in what is named Operation 'Eagle Claw,' have shut down 800 scam web sites and arrested members of 18 syndicates behind the fraudulent scam sites. Reports on Breitbart.com and Pointblank give details on the busts. The investigation was done in cooperation with Microsoft to help develop smart technology software capable of detecting fraudulent emails. From Breitbart: 'When operating at full capacity, within the next six months, the scheme, dubbed "Eagle Claw," should be able to forewarn around a quarter of million potential victims.'"
I'm a nigerian prince (Score:3, Funny)
Would you like to help me transfer millions of nira to me? You will be well paid!
Love those letters (Score:5, Funny)
I rather enjoy getting those letters. The last one I replied that I was extremely interested but that I had recently had a dispute with my Internet Service Provider and my access to email would be shut down soon. I would be more than willing to help them if they could send $98.43 to Time Warner Cable referencing account number ################.
There are other variations. Such as I can help them get the money out of the country but I need more money to pay my lawyer to settle some estate disputes. Buy me a ticket to Nigeria and I will come there personally. My rich family members think this is a joke and I have been cut off from the family money but I can show them if I can just get to Nigeria and show them that this is real.
My record so far is stringing these guys along for 2 weeks. They finally give up frustrated. I actually had one of them write me back asking to be left alone and stop sending him emails.
Noooo.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This isn't going to help (Score:5, Funny)
Was it this professor at Harvard who sent 600k to nigerian scammers?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/31/harvard_prof_scams/ [theregister.co.uk]
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
What? You mean that some of those scammers were ACTUALLY Nigerian? I had always assumed even that was fake...
Wow! Shut down 800, did ya!? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, there goes about a quarter of the scam email I see on my servers.
Per HOUR.
DEAR ESTEEMED SIR OR MADAM (Score:4, Funny)
PLEASE FAX US ALL OF YOUR CURRENT BANK ACCOUNT AND IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS TO 01-234-419-23222 AND WE WILL IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION, AS WELL AS ADDING A $5,061 DOLLAR REWARD FEE AS REQUIRED BY THE NIGERIAN FEDERAL COURT. TO FACILITATE THE PROCESSING OF YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE INCLUDE THE ROUTING NUMBER, ACCOUNT NUMBER, AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR PRIMARY BANKING ACCOUNT (FAILING TO INCLUDE THIS NUMBER WILL DISQUALIFY YOU FROM CONSIDERATION FOR THE $5,061 REWARD).
YOUR FAITHFUL CIVIL SERVANT,
MOGWAH MUBUGASHS
Eagle Claw? EAGLE CLAW? (Score:3, Funny)
That's no eagle claw, it's just the way Wikus's hand grew back, you insensitive MNU clods.
Re:This isn't going to help (Score:3, Funny)
A cherrypicked group of humans?
Yeah it turns out that some people are much smarter than the average person. Shocker.
Re:Microsoft's scam detection strategy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This isn't going to help (Score:3, Funny)
I know some people here don't like xkcd, but this felt relevant [xkcd.com]
The Nigerian letters are a scam???!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This isn't going to help (Score:5, Funny)
My cat tried to achieve the same results by installing Vista.
Re:This isn't going to help (Score:3, Funny)
Ok, so how are we supposed to do that? In 2009 we still have finite supplies of everything, if I want a ham sandwich I can't magically produce ham by speaking "create ham", it isn't even digital where if you have one piece of ham you can make almost infinite copies without damaging the original ham or using any other parts.
Did you try "sudo create ham"?
Re:This isn't going to help (Score:3, Funny)
Let's just see how stupid you are shall we?
I have a cat
That's strike one.
Having carefully observed me using the computer over a long period of time, he figured out how to reset my computer
Very doubtful. I think you're anthropomorphising - strike two.
He had to stick his claw in that specific hole, and *bam* - there goes an hour of work
Went an hour without saving work. Strike three.....you're outta here!
Re:Finally! It's about time! (Score:1, Funny)
Heck, I would accept help from Satan himself, if it reduce the spam and online crime.
Allow me to introduce myself, being Dr. Faustus a business associate of Mr. Satan who as you know is an excellent Prince of Darkness and Spam, resident in many parts of Nigeria. I am sure we can come to an amicable arrangement whereby Mr. Satan's spam services are directed to others instead of yourself. Some anticipated administrative expenses needing to be circumvented, please be replying with your credit card and banking details, and numerous photographs of naked women.
Re:DEAR ESTEEMED SIR OR MADAM (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Love those letters (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, those guys have ENTIRELY too much time on their hands.
I love the one where they got some scammer to pay for the shipment of a toilet and a stove to Nigeria, when they thought they were getting "Anus Laptops".