Monday, 3. March 2003

Nigerian scammers
Brits sent 8.4 MILLION


IF IT seems like one of the most ridiculous scams in the history of criminal enterprise, that’s because it is.

But the phenomenon of the e-mail from Africa promising untold riches in return for your bank account details has got the UK’s elite crimefighters worried.

The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) has decided to wage war on the artless fraudsters behind the con because scores of people every year are falling for it and the total losses are running into millions of pounds.

¬> Scotland on sunday

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