Monday, March 26, 2007

Have Email Scams Migrated to Ivory Coast?


It’s amazing how far email scammers would go- calling you all the way from Africa trying to convince you of the genuiness of the offer. Recently, site meter of the blog has noticed search items like ‘company CEOs emails’ been hit from Sierra Leon and Ivory Coast.

So readers be informed, Even Smarties Get Swindled on the Net.

Here's the same scam from the one and only, Utility Delivery And Sleaning Company by a Miss Kudi Suleman.

*The picture shows one such scam document used by email scammers.

Related;
EFCC’s crackdown on Yahoo boys
Latest statistics released in March by Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations, a Dutch private investigation firm that has been studying 419 scams worldwide for a decade, showed that companies and individuals in the United States were defrauded of about $720 million last year alone. Total losses from 37 nations to these scams are almost $3.2 billion.


The "Nigerian" Scam: Costly Compassion
The 419 Files

Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds
Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website

Advance fee fraud
Fraud or Friendster?

The Internet Crime Complaint Center

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