Trading Standards warning over Asian call centres targeting Norfolk homes ...
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
And a 74-year-old woman from Stalham, who did not wish to be named, lost £820 over three months to the virus scam. Money was taken from her account from two call centres and paid to accounts in Nigeria, India and Cyprus.

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Scammers Target Lovelorn on Match.com
NBC Los Angeles
Match.com said that the company employs 100 fraud team agents screen every profile for possible scams, but acknowleged that "a few of these sophisticated criminals still slip through all of our checks.” By Joel Grover and Chris Henao Match.com said ...

Our airports: Windows to our disgrace
Vanguard
As usual the issue of cost of doing business in Nigeria came up. And as usual, the clichéd promise Nigerian government officials make to investors was generously made. As I watched this formality go on, I wondered if the Honourable Minister himself ...

More anti-scam tips
Journal Online
THE NIGERIAN INHERITANCE/LEGACY SCAM -- The would-be-victim is usually contacted through e-mail by an individual claiming to be either a representative of the Nigerian government, a wealthy businessman or the widow of a deposed African leader.

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Visa racketeers siphon N3.6bn from Nigeria
Vanguard
Canada: Canada was in the news in September as over 7000 Nigerians fell prey to a well crafted Visa scam by a group that called itself Crystal Services with a make-believe office in Gbagada, a suburb of Lagos. The scammers had enticed their victims ...

The Consumerist
Scammers Using Real Vacation Rental Info To Trick Victims Out Of Thousands
The Consumerist
And yet, several people have already been taken by this scam for "deposits" of anywhere from $800 to $1000 that ended up in Nigerian bank accounts. So even if someone is using the real name and number of a rental agency — and even if the photos and ...

Tables turned on would-be scammer
The Columbian
Shop here and we'll enter you in a sleazy Nigerian sweepstakes so scammers can go after your personal information and drain your bank account!” Scammers often target elderly folks, Price said, because many of them grew up in a time when they could ...

The Guardian
Obama-appointed US trade adviser linked to illegal deal in Congolese gold
The Guardian
Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born US oil tycoon, transferred millions of dollars to the notorious rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda between December 2010 and February 2011 as part of the deal, the report by the UN's Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of ...

Shore renters being duped by Craigslist scammers
Philadelphia Inquirer
They had wired the money to bank accounts in Nigeria. At least one was instructed that the keys would be available at Schrenk's Coldwell Banker At The Shore Realty. Police said two other properties in the same neighborhood in this Shore resort just ...

Sylva Accuses Jonathan Of
Leadership Newspapers
Seriake Dickson, two issues raised showed that the president was the mastermind of deceit and fraud against the Ijaw nation with his sponsorship of the act of stoning in the state. According to the statement, “The stoning in Yenagoa happened during the ...

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Team recovers N151b embezzled pension funds
Information Nigeria
According to him, if such monumental fraud could be going on at the Head of Service Office alone, then the overall amount of fraud that would be taking place in other pension offices nationwide would be monumental, noting that there were 42 pension ...

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Osun Defender
Why EFCC Is Delaying Prosecution Of Fuel Subsidy Fraudsters – Investigation
Leadership Newspapers
... Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and others, pending the conclusion of the committee's probe. LEADERSHIP gathered that the EFCC, in order to avoid duplication of enquiry into the scam, may adopt the final report and recommendations of ...
JONATHAN'S OIL SCAM!!!Osun Defender

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BBC News
Sham marriages: Nigerians jailed in UK
The Nation Newspaper
By Kolade Adeyemi, Kano 18 hours 23 minutes ago No fewer than 10 foreign nationals, many of them Nigerians have been jailed in the United Kingdom (UK) over alleged involvement in sham marriage scam. They were found guilty of trying to organize an ...
Plastic wedding rings used in Nottingham sham marriagesBBC News
Ten jailed for Nottingham churches' sham marriage conspiracyThis is Nottingham

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How to Spot and Avoid Email Scams that Target Lawyers By Bob Luttrell
JD Supra (press release)
One of the perpetrators was eventually extradited to Nigeria this year. Such scams have a long history. Early versions would involve letters or emails making simple claims such as, “I have a lot of money that I need to get out of my country.

BBC News
Ten jailed for Nottingham churches' sham marriage conspiracy
This is Nottingham
"Unlike the other Nigerians who pleaded guilty and were sentenced before, you as partner to Phillips Onikoyi have been closer to his activities and slightly more involved than they." The scam came to light after UK Border Agency officers stopped a ...
Plastic wedding rings used in Nottingham sham marriagesBBC News

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Death threat email labelled a scam
Star Canterbury
Constable Chris Caldwell said it was the first time he had seen the email doing the rounds but it was similar to previous Nigerian scams, aside from the death threat. He said the first person who reported the email sounded "a wee bit concerned", ...

Judge drops computer restriction for Lusk man convicted of fraud
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Freudenthal sentenced Sunday in February 2011 after a jury found him guilty of one count of bank fraud and three counts of issuing counterfeit securities after he became involved in a Nigerian money scam. His five-year supervised release conditions ...

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Beware of online dating scammers looking to swindle you out of cash
WDXE
Soon you find out the person you met, who claimed to be an American professional, is going to Nigeria or another country for work. Once he or she is there, that person needs your help, asking you to wire money. The first transfer may be small, ...

Osun Defender
JONATHAN'S OIL SCAM!!!
Osun Defender
What Nigerians were made to believe prior to the public sitting of the committee was that N1.3 trillion was spent on oil subsidy last year. However, when the Minister of Finance and coordinating Minister of the country's Economic Team, ...

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Fraud schemes may pose as Web romance
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Ms. Garner, a former special agent for the US Secret Service, said many of the romance scammers are based in Nigeria. She said a representative of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told a recent meeting of the Federal Trade Commission ...