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Nigeria Returns $4.5N to Little Old Lady Fraud Victim
Nigeria returned $4.5 million seized from scammers to an 86-year-old Chinese woman last month, the West African country's financial crimes agency said Saturday. A Nigerian fraud ring swindled Juliana Ching, of Hong Kong, through false promises that she and her daughter would benefit from a contract supposedly offered by the state-owned Nigerian oil company, said Osita Nwajah, spokesman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The scammers told Ching they needed to use her account to temporarily deposit $25 million, promising her 25 percent of the sum. Instead, between 1995 and 2000, they withdrew $4.5 million of Ching's own money.Nigeria has earned global notoriety as a base for criminals arranging "advance fee" scams. Among the most common are e-mails proposing to share portions of dead African dictators' ill-gotten estates in exchange for an advance payment to help move the money overseas. The scammers keep the fees while victims receive nothing. Posted by: Fred 2005-10-09 |
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