[SpamCop-List] (Media): ABC News,Internet Scammers Keep Working in Nigeria

[Ron B.]

ABC News
Internet Scammers Keep Working in Nigeria
Despite Police Crackdown on E-Scams in Nigeria, Internet Scammers Keep
on Working
By DULUE MBACHU Associated Press Writer
The Associated PressThe Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria Aug 6, 2005 — In Festac Town, an entire community of
scammers overnights on the Internet. By day they flaunt their smart
clothes and cars and hang around the Internet cafes, trading stories
about successful cons and near misses, and hatching new plots.

Festac Town is where communication specialists operating underground
sell foreign telephone lines over which a scammer can purport to be
calling from any city in the world. Here lurk master forgers and
purveyors of such software as "e-mail extractors," which can harvest
e-mail addresses by the million. Now, however, a 3-year-old crackdown is
yielding results, Nigerian authorities say.

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