From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 15:46:02 MDT
[Mermaid]
folks, remember the Nigerian Scam?
http://www.mykeru.com/texts/nigerianscam.htm
[rhinoceros]
Hey! It gets better!
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/checks21_20020921.htm
Law firm out $2.1 million in African fraud
September 21, 2002
BY DAVID ASHENFELTER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
He introduced himself as Dr. Mbuso Nelson.
He said he was an official with the Ministry of Mining in Pretoria, South Africa.
And he offered to pay a $4.5-million fee to a 59-year-old Rochester Hills woman if she would help him transfer $18 million from South Africa to a bank account in the United States.
The FBI said Poet, a bookkeeper for a small Berkley law firm, embezzled $2.1 million from the firm's accounts between February and August, after scam organizers persuaded her to wire huge amounts of money to bank accounts in South Africa and Taiwan to expedite the transfer of money to the United States.
"It's unbelievable that she fell for this," said FBI Special Agent James Hoppe, who is investigating the case. "She was gullible -- gullible and had access to $2.1 million."
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