Yahoo Boy buys land,honda prelude car with scam proceeds

 Hi .

This is an item from the newspapers. It’s tragic to note that some fellows have no conscience. This guy bought a car and a plot of land with the proceeds of his scam Can you believe that? Well, read on and get the details for yourself.

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alan–(www.elovedeceptions.com)

In a related development, a young man has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimess Commission (EFCC) for allegedly defrauding an Australian. Lawal Adewale Nurudeen, 27 years, is believed to be a part-four student of Surveying and Geoinformatic Engineering at the University of Lagos . He is said to have claimed to be married with three children.He is currently being held at the commission’s detention facility in Lagos.
He was arrested on 7th November this year while stepping out of the FedEx/Red Star Express branch, Lagos . He had gone to the courier firm to retrieve a parcel containing a lap-top computer sent to him by his 55 years old Australian “fiancée” – Rose Sumner. Sunday Tribune learnt that they both met earlier this year on the internet; specifically on the site – www.chinesekisses.com. Nurudeen was said to have presented himself to the lady, a widow, as Mr. Benson Lawson, a 57-year old Briton and an Engineer who was only in Nigeria on an assignment. Equally, he was said to have sent a phoney photograph of a white man of about his claimed age to the Australian.
The lady, it was further learnt fell for the trick and a relationship began between them. He was said to have professed love and affection for the old lady. He was alleged to have equally promised her marriage as soon as he gets back to his home country.
Few months into the cyber relationship, it was furthered learnt, “he started making some demands to her. And she obliged him since he claimed to love and wanted to marry her. “He made a request that he would like to come to Australia . He sent a fake British passport to her and demanded some money which she sent in thousands and hundreds of US dollars. “The suspect again, asked for USD 60,000 to fund an engineering project here in Nigeria . Again, she obliged him. When the victim was expecting him there in Australia , he cooked another lie.
On the day he was to arrive Australia , the victim, Rose received a call from someone in Nigeria who claimed to be Dr. Saheed Bakare. The caller claimed that her fiancée was involved in a ghastly motor accident on his way to the airport here in Nigeria and that they needed some money to fund a major operation that would save his life” a source in the commission said.
He was said to have later sent a photograph of an accident scene to the lady, claiming that to be the accident in which he was involved. Although the Australian was unaware that Nurudeen also played the role of the said Dr. Bakare, she was said to have became curious at that stage and later handed the photograph to her son for investigation with a view to ascertaining whether or not an accident actually occurred. The said son whose name was kept in secret, however found out after hours of search on the internet, that “the picture was downloaded by Nurudeen from the internet. It was an accident picture in a case represented by one Peter young, an attorney based in the United State, back on 13th June 2002”, the EFCC source further said.
Realizing that she had fallen for a scam, Rose was said to have promptly reported the matter to the Queensland Police command in Australia. The command later referred the case to an official in its Computer Crime Unit, Mr. Read Brendan, who in turn wrote a petition to the EFCC, stating the victim’s case.
Startled by the details of the alleged crime, the commission was said to have promptly assigned a team to unveil the face behind the said Eng. Lawson. As part of its strategy the team, it was learnt encouraged the victim to “play along”. She was advised later to inform the said Engr. Lawson that he had sent him a lap-top through Fed EX/Red Star. And as his luck would have it, Engr. Lawson walked into a trap set for him by the EFCC operatives, who had positioned themselves within the courier firm’s premises. On his way out, having picked up the package, he was apprehended.
On interrogation, Nurudeen was said to have been remorseful, claiming that he had no intention of duping the lady as he actually was emotionally attached to her. When asked how he was able to retrieve all the money sent to him without attracting the suspicion of bank’s officials, he was said to have claimed that he usually present different driver’s license each time he went to cash the money which were often sent through Western Union Money Transfer.
He was also found to possess seven different e-mail addresses. According to the source, Nurudeen stated that “he used the money to buy one Honda Prelude car, a plot of land (which he bought at N650,000), and that he invested another N200,000 (in an undisclosed business). All the money, it was learnt was swindled out of the Australian within four months. Head, media unit, EFCC, Lagos Mr. Wilson Uwuigiaren confirmed.

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Australians still skittled by Nigerian scams

Hi . I at first couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this story. A conference was actually held on Nigerian scams in Australia. Can you imagine people gathering for the sole purpose of discussing scams?

Well, I guess you must be interested in the proceedings at the conference. here’s the news update I came across.

read on

alan

www.elovedeceptions.com

Sydney – Australians had a giggle earlier this year when lovelorn sheep farmer Des Gregor flew back to Adelaide from west Africa without his luggage, his wallet and more depressingly without the ravishing young bride he had been promised over the internet. Mirth turned to incredulity when they learned that this had been 56-year-old Gregor’s second dose of intercontinental dating dismay. He had earlier returned from Russia without the promised sweetheart and with his money gone.

Speakers at Australia’s first national conference on Nigerian fraud tried to explain the naivety of blokes like Gregor who are shipping money to West Africa at the rate of 2.5 million Australian dollars (2 million US dollars) a month.

Inspector Brian Hay, head of the Queensland Police fraud and corporate crime unit, sees the human tragedy that begins with a reply to an email that often purports to come from a God-fearing banker in Lagos anxious to find a home for millions of dollars.

“We have had people lose businesses, lose their livelihood, commit crime, try to commit suicide,” Hay said. “There are lots of people in the community new to the internet, not knowing the dangers and the threats, going on line and all of a sudden being promised an opportunity that promises the world.”

It’s not just backwoodsmen like Gregor who get fleeced.

Queensland businessman Steven Baker swallowed his pride and admitted to losing 1.3 million Australian dollars (1 million US dollars) trying to get hold of a fictitious 20-million-dollar inheritance.

He flew to Europe three times to meet bogus government officials in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, and was even taken to a bank vault and shown a suitcase full of American dollars he was told was part of the pay-out.

“The professionalism of it is just unbelievable – the paperwork, the officials, going to government departments,” Baker said. “You would think if they were straight-out scammers they wouldn’t have access to government officials and places, and the paperwork with all the stamps.”

Hay explained that scammers play on the better part of our natures: we are naturally trusting, expect the best of people and believe that good things happen.

“Our kids grow up on legends and mythology and fairy tales,” Hay said. “We are conditioned to believe in things we can’t validate and can’t see.”

What also works in favour of the scammers is that there appears to be no victim. The money is there in the bank, the owner dead, and all that’s required is a bit of paperwork to release it and make everyone happy. There is no downside.

Hay explains that the email instantly brings a ray of hope that our dreams can come true.

“When you get emotion involved, logic goes out the window,” he said. “People get very excited. They don’t want to listen to the negatives, the bad things. They want to believe in the good things.”

Federal agents crack down on Internet scams

Hi

Here is another item from the news about internet scams. It appears after all that something is being done to clamp down on net scams.

please read the story and leave your comments.

alan

www.elovedeceptions.com

Federal agents crack down on Internet scams

05:35 PM Mountain Standard Time on Wednesday, October 3, 2007
By Bart Treece / 3 On Your Side Producer It’s one of the biggest scams around and federal agents are finally cracking down.

This scam has gone on for so long. The biggest problem is that the scammers live overseas and the victims live right here, many of them living in Arizona.

Because of the distance, it’s a little hard to crack down on these con artists. Until now, that is.

At a news conference today, federal agents say they have had enough.

Nigerian police, with the help of federal agents, raided Internet cafes in Africa.

As it turns out, the raid is part of a global crackdown on Internet scams.

Altogether, 16 people were arrested for allegedly taking part in fake check scams that target countless Americans.

In Amsterdam, 60 people were taken into custody for doing the exact same thing.

Federal and local authorities announced the crackdown at a news conference in downtown Phoenix.

“American consumers are being defrauded by overseas scam artists,” said Pete Zegarac, a U.S. postal inspector.

The crackdown, they say, actually started by sending American agents overseas to investigate.

“In a 21-day effort alone in Nigeria, postal inspectors oversaw the seizure of 15,000 fake checks,” Zegarac said.

U.S. postal inspector Keith Moore from the Phoenix office was in Nigeria for several weeks and says he saw firsthand how good these scammers are.

“We were able to determine their equipment is first class,” Moore said.

For example, that first-class equipment produces checks that look real.

After you cash it and send some of the proceeds back to the scammer, you later find out the check is fake.

The bait is usually set when you receive an e-mail.

“Two out of three adults receive a potential scam once a week, said Sally Wells with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. “I have a reliable source because my mother sends them to me about once a week.”

“These scams prey on the elderly and when English is a second language,” said Ann Harwood with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona.

Victims are lured into the scam because easy money is too hard to resist.

Another example, are foreign lotteries claiming you won money. To collect, you cash the fake check and return a portion to the scammer.

“It’s easy for law enforcement to stand up here and say, ‘You won the lottery without even entering. You must be the luckiest person on earth!’” Zegarac said.

Numerous times, law enforcement warn people about these scams and now they have a new tool for you, a Web site called fakechecks.org, which is part of a multi-agency effort to keep your money out of the hands of con artists.

“There’s a lot of feeling there that Americans have a lot of money and they want to target that,” Moore said.

“People fall for it,” Zegarac said. “It’s up to us to get the word out.”

That Web site is also the place to report these scams to law enforcement so they can track down these scammers.