Amazing how many people fall for the Nigerian scammers.
In one case, a legal secretary stole $2 million of the law firm’s money figuring she’d struck it rich.
NBC’s Chris Hansen did a segment on this——a smalltown official actually looted the town’s treasury of a million bucks (and ponied up $70,000 of his own money) in anticipation of a payoff-—the official is now in jail.
Hansen then flew all over the world and met with some of the scammers........pretending he fell for the scam. NBC rented a London nightclub and staffed it with actors, to lure one scammer.
Apparently there’s not much you can do legally to these Nigerians.
It is so lucrative, would not be surprised to learn the Nigerian gov’t is in on it (I would suggest Chris Hansen follow-up that angle).
I didn’t know the guys spreading these messages were actually Nigerians. I though the name came from the first scam of this kind which was about some ex Nigerian minister’s family trying to send dirty cash out of the country.