Nigerian spammer caught
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- ukit
http://techdirt.com/articles/201…
Okpako "Mike" Diamreyan spend ten years using a single Yahoo e-mail address to scam people into sending him money.
Spreadsheet here http://www.scribd.com/doc/302936… shows the amounts he was able to scam people for (only the ones the gov has been able to find out about). Seems like he made out pretty well.
- iCanHasQBN0
seems like a better gig than designing.
- UKV0
damn, he was pretty good. he might do well in direct response... if its a prison work release program.
- session0
How does the scam work?
- send me $500 and I'll tell you.dbloc
- http://en.wikipedia.…acescence
- Will cash work?session
- vitamins0
I can't believe people sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- OSFA0
That sucks... he was so nice and polite....
- trooperbill0
we get nigerians calling every day using fake credit cards to try and buy our stuff... you can always tell theyre scammers because:
* they sound nigerian
* they use a different delivery address to the card holders address
* they always give instruction to 'call 10 mins before the van arrives so i can be there to collect'in the past 12 months weve caught 99% of this and we even use services like 192.com to try and find the cardholders phone number to tell them their cards been stolen.
its a shame the police dont do anything about it as this kind of crime would be easy to shut down using a sting operation i.e. when the fan turns up out jump the police.... but theyre just not interested.
- they don't stop it because it's extremely profitable for bringing money into their country.lambsy
- PIZZA0
anyone who falls for these is a genuine fucking moron, its a shock they were able to earn that money to throw away in the first place.
- Peter0
One down, 672,923 to go.
- JazX0
Having lived in Africa, I'm dead sure that most of these cats are operating in either the UK or France. Their connections are unreliable and they are just plain disorganized and chaotic. By nature.
- Jimbo820
This dude is the master at humiliating these scammers, some of the stories on here are class
http://www.419eater.com/index.ph…- LOL, his book Skeleton Coast, I lived very close to here for 3 years: http://www.419eater.…JazX
- Jimbo820
- http://www.419eater.… the money is about here... lived near Brandberg (Mountain)JazX
- graham0
Just sent Celine Lambert a couple of emails