Bill Gate Takes on Nigeria
Oct 18 2005
I mean who hasn’t got the Nnigerian email scam. And if we are really going to go after the bad guys, why not stop in an under developed country that really has a major effect on us?
Nigeria enlists Microsoft to fight spam scammers
Microsoft is planning to work with the Nigerian government to help track down and prosecute criminals involved in e-mail scams and other Internet-based fraud originating from the African country.
Microsoft will provide technical expertise, training and other security resources to Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is tasked with fighting cybercrime in the country.
Nigeria was initially slow to respond to the problem of “419″ e-mail scammers operating in the country, who were duping unsuspecting Internet users out of thousands of pounds by promising a share of the secret multimillion-pound fortune of a deposed African dictator.
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November 8th, 2005 at 9:16 am
helo
i want to say u about some serious problems about E_Mail.
recently i received a Mail abot Lotery. in which lotery offerd me about 50,000 dollers, and its sponcers were BIll Gate from Microsot and Sultan of Brunei. when i response them, they demand the 80 Euro.
i want to say what is this. it’s true.