BBC: "Nigerian Jailed For E-mail Scam"

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/wales/north_west/3594043.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/wales/north_west/3594043.stm</a><br /><br /></div>In response to this news, I think there should be a collective "Woohoo!" across the world :). BBC is reporting that "a Nigerian has been jailed for his part in a huge international e-mail fraud. Peter Okoeguale, 33, was jailed for 20 months for his part in the e-mail fraud, also known as the Nigerian 419 scam. Caernarfon Crown Court heard victims are promised a share of cash if they help with the movement of millions of dollars out of Africa. But they are then duped into handing over cash themselves to overcome an unforeseen difficulty."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/_39998225_peterokoeguale_203.jpg" /><br /><br />I am sure all of you have gotten one of these Nigerian scam emails, if you haven't then you probably don't have an email address ;-). Of course, this one arrest does not mean that this kind of scam spam will stop. It has already morphed into the Iraq general, Indonesian dictator and Albanian minister scam. But I still feel that this is good news.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Yay! One down, another 53768 more to go!

[Tim Williamson]

Isn't April 1st over? ;)

For some reason this sounds like an April Fool's story to me...I'm glad they're finally nabbing these guys.

[Suhit Gupta]

Nah, it looks like legit news. The April Fool's joke version would have been 'All Nigerian scam spammers caught, made to read all their emails'. :)

Suhit

[Janak Parekh]

Nah, it looks like legit news. The April Fool's joke version would have been 'All Nigerian scam spammers caught, made to read all their emails'. :)
... and spontaneously combust in a puff of smoke. :lol:

--janak

[Suhit Gupta]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/05/gardai_capture_alleged_419er/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/05/gardai_capture_alleged_419er/
). This is definitely worth reading :-D, i.e. regarding the article above.

Suhit

[Tim Williamson]

Wow that is a really interesting read...I wish I knew how to do some of those technical things the writer did...

[Suhit Gupta]

More than his technical skills (most of which are common in most systems administrators), I was impressed by his presence of mind. He kept up with the situation even with a small amount of data.

Suhit

[Suhit Gupta]

For your amusement - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/cosmic_419er/

Suhit