Nigerian Scammers Are Now Calling On the Telepone!

[Technomage]

They aren't.
the Nigerian government is about as corrupt as they get. they operate 
under a system of payola there.
the 419 fraud problem would only come into play of the money were being 
shipped OUT of the country
(most times it is being imported, usually after being washed through 
several international accounts). Also,
most of the scammers involved usually have some ties to one terrorist 
group or another.

So, if they are starting to make direct phone calls, that generally 
means their income stream of electronic
requests are starting to get dumped and they have taken a page out of 
the "social engineering" book
to bolster their earnings (not that it works much as most folks in the 
US don't like talking to overseas
outsourced call centers and they would be even less likely to speak with 
someone they can't even understand).

On 4/4/10 7:31 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
> I was doing some reading and interestingly enough found this blurb on
> the FBI website:
>
> The Nigerian government is not sympathetic to victims of these
> schemes, since the victim actually conspires to remove funds from
> Nigeria in a manner that is contrary to Nigerian law. The schemes
> themselves violate section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code, hence
> the label "419 fraud."
>
> looks like they have been using regular letters as well:
> http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm
>
> so i guess maybe the Nigerian government might be interested
>
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