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Before He Spammed You, This Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox

• ISL 7y ago
  Committing fraud through the postal system opens up the scammer to an entire new class of federal investigators. https://www.uspis.gov/ https://www.uspis.gov/
  • gowld 7y ago
    Do you think Federal investigators in the 1980s did a lot of work to round up criminals in Nigeria?
  • dzolvd 7y ago
    USPIS was Benjamin Franklin's greatest achievement, and yes I know he popularized parmesan cheese in America.
• dmix 7y ago
  The indictment against a ton of Nigerians both living in California and in Nigeria is the most interest part of this: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6318484-BEC-Iro-Igbokwe-et-al-indictment.html http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6318484-BEC-Iro-Igbok... They were doing tons of different kinds of fraud, not just the 419 scam but also hijacking real estate agents email accounts to get people to deposit down payments in fraudulent accounts as well as romance scams on dating sites. It's amazing there were so many co-defendants involved in this one operation 'ring'.
• adrr 7y ago
  More than likely they didn’t pay the postage. They probably posted a job on Craigslist that states $10k a week to send these letters and conned someone to to using their personal funds to send these out with a promise of payment at the end of the week.