Millions of limpopos or Nigerian letters. “Nigerian letters What is the responsibility when inviting from Nigeria?

What are Nigerian Letters of Happiness?

... Nigerian letters are a common form of fraud, most developed with the advent of mass mailings by e-mail (spam). The letters are named so because this type of fraud was especially widespread in Nigeria, moreover, even before the spread of the Internet, when such letters were distributed by regular mail. However, Nigerian letters also come from other African countries, as well as from cities with a large Nigerian diaspora (London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Dubai). Mailing of letters began in the mid-1980s. In 2005, Nigerian spammers were awarded the Anti-Nobel Prize for Literature.

As a rule, fraudsters ask the recipient of the letter for help in multi-million dollar transactions, promising substantial interest on the amounts. If the recipient agrees to participate, large sums of money are gradually lured away from him, allegedly for the execution of transactions, payment of fees, bribes to officials, and then fines ...

And here's another funny excerpt, this time from the site Argumenty.ru -

... On the first wave of "Nigerian letters", only the Americans lost $ 5 billion. The total amount of losses from such letters around the world amounted to $ 10 billion. Australians, for example, lose about $ 36 million a year. One of the Belarusian businessmen lost 200 thousand dollars. The Russians must be given their due, they not only do not fall for such proposals, but, having come into contact with the authors of the letters, often give us data that helps to find traces of criminals. True, we must state with regret that among the fraudsters who have now begun to conduct a massive attack on Russia, according to preliminary data from the investigation, there are first of all graduates of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. This is indicated not only by the peculiarities of linguistics in Russian-language "Nigerian letters", but also by a rather careful selection of their victims - representatives of small, but rising, and medium-sized businesses. Computer databases of such "clients" are illegally sold in Moscow and other large cities of Russia. Interior Ministry officials and tax officials are looking for sources of information leakage from their departments, but so far unsuccessfully ...

Interpol officials warn that the “Nigerian mailing list” has grown sharply in the wake of the global financial crisis. In the hope that some will treat the "legacy" that has fallen from the sky as a lifeline. It got to the point that in some letters they ask to send not three thousand dollars, but at least a hundred. And one more alarming statistic: if at the beginning of the year three or four applications a month were received from Russians about the receipt of "Nigerian letters", now their number exceeds a dozen a week ...

The scheme by which scammers always work

First of all, it must be emphasized that crooks count on the combination of human stupidity and greed, and they find fertile ground. Therefore, in most cases, I personally do not feel sorry for the victims of African spam. Well, please tell me, what sane person would think of answering a letter of this kind -

... I am compelled to turn to you with the hope that you will come into my position and understand the urgent need for your assistance, as well as preserve the confidentiality that this case requires. My name is Fred Williams and I am the son of Salim Williams, a former defense secretary who was killed for resisting arrest during a coup in Guinea-Bissau. Due to persecution by the government, I was forced to flee to Cote d'Ivoire, where my father's deposit contains $ 21.8 million, according to my father's will, money can be withdrawn from the account only with the help of his foreign partner. , they don't know this partner ... I chose you as a partner for your honesty ... Tell me what percentage of the total amount you are counting on and send your bank details so that we can share the money ...

Fraudsters almost always send their messages on behalf of the crown princes, ministers of the disgraced African republics, fugitive oligarchs and always with constant requests for assistance in banking transactions related to the transfer of money from Africa to Asia. The schemes are absolutely banal, and to some extent I am even embarrassed for opponents who are unable to come up with anything more original. To be more convincing, they send you your money, which awaits you in Nigeria in incredible quantities -

If the victim of the letter responds to a cunning swindler, then several scans of “documents” are sent to him, allegedly confirming the legitimacy of the transaction and the honesty of your opponents. We are always talking about handicraft forgeries made by a person who is absolutely not familiar with Photoshop. Black brothers and sisters, piously worshiping the power of paper, fill you with their artisanal works of the Photoshop genre, trying to impress you.

Small collection of selected "trophies" (double click to view) -

... An African alchemist was detained in Yekaterinburg. True, he did not work with gold and lead, but with paper and foreign exchange. Cameroonian citizen Tombu Eric Hilton told local businessmen that he has the secret of converting money into paper and vice versa. Surprisingly, there were people who wanted to test the wonderful skill of the Cameroonian. He claimed that he had money, but they were in the form of so-called candy wrappers, that is, ordinary paper. And in order for this money to turn into its usual state, exactly the same amount of real money is needed. By folding and processing with the appropriate chemical reagents, these candy wrappers allegedly turned, according to the fraudster, into money. Here is one such person fell for the trick of this swindler. One of the Yekaterinburg residents, an entrepreneur who laid out 10 thousand euros, as a result, became a victim of this scammer. A lot of this story is still to be found out by the investigating authorities. In the temporary detention center, he said: "Tell everyone that I will be back soon" ...

Who are the Scambites?

From the English words "scam" and "byter", that is, beating swindlers. With the growing number of Africans involved in Internet piracy, there have appeared those who are fighting them using their own methods. It is enough to enter the number “419” in Google and you will see dozens and hundreds of scambite sites. Those who like to make fun of crooks communicate with each other on the forums, share the email addresses from which spam comes from. And then they play with crooks without rules, creating the appearance of easy money. As a result, the fraudster spends a lot of time and effort on you, without getting anything in return.

And scambites have the concept of trophies of war. For example, you managed to boggle the head of a swindler so much that he is ready for any of your whims in order to get money from you. For example, you suddenly write that you are 100% Muslim and are ready to send money only for the construction of a mosque. The swindler immediately forgets that he is the Crown Prince of Guinea and a devout Catholic, and is ready to accept Mohammedanism -

But even this is not enough for you, and you demand not only a receipt confirming the acceptance of Islam, but also a change of name in the passport. And the swindler, forgetting that he is a masculine person, sends you a scan of a woman's passport that was stolen in the open spaces of the network, while spoiling it with the inept possession of Photoshop (note how the name and surname are clumsily entered) -

To increase and evaluate the skill of African Photoshop lovers, double-click

Here the black swindler apologizes to Zhorik Miloslavsky for not responding to letters for a long time

There are many opportunities to harass crooks - it all depends on your imagination. If you are a Catholic, you demand to convert to Orthodoxy and send a certificate from the Russian Orthodox Church, if he is a Muslim, you demand to accept Judaism, and from a Jew, to accept Buddhism. A woman has to have an operation and become a man and send a photo. You can demand to send photos of relatives, electricity bills (if you are asked for money to create a fund to help refugees from Congo). At the same time, you are distrust itself, you are a grumbler and sinister in the eyes of crooks. Either you don’t like the quality of the scan, then you don’t answer for a week (there is still work to be done besides games!), Then you find an annoying typo in their “documents”. And so on ad infinitum. As a result, the impatience of the black brothers reaches a boiling point and they break out into rudeness and threats - this is a victory, an unconditional victory!

Examples of jokes on black rags

Depending on what they write to you, you make an insidious laugh at your black brothers and sisters. To a lonely girl who is looking for love and who accidentally found your profile on a dating site (you actually have no profiles!), You write the following:

... Dear Mauren,
Unfortunately I "m lesbian and I" m 100% muslim. Why do you address me this message? I "m searching for a lesbian person betrayed by all heart and soul in ALLAH.
Are you lesbian? Are you muslim?
p.s I wear men "s clothes, that" s why some ppl think I "m male yes ...

To someone offering you a bank loan on super favorable terms (before asking you to send him $ 3,000!), You answer -

... Dear Walter,
OK, you compel me to tell you something intimate about me. Mrs Choo is not a woman. His real name is Larry Bukhari, and he is my boyfriend. Yes I "m homosexual. Surely I trust him and he can use my mail box. However, I" ve been too much angry to discover, that Larry used my email without my permition.
Are you satisfied now? Can we continue? ...

To those who offer you a job in the Emirates, you inform that you suffer from AIDS and have already re-infected all your partners, and moreover, you express a desire to continue in the same spirit -

...Dear Sir,
Please advice me, what to write about my age? I "m 55 years old. Some banks and funds ignore such an elderly persons. The problem is that they think I have no chance to find a new job. My health is not too good yes, because when I was younger i" ve got AIDS. All my wifes passed away because of my lethal sickness, but I still living because I believe in GOD.
Please reply ...

I am offered to fill out a questionnaire for a loan of 25 million Ghanaian kedis, and in it, in addition to the standard full name, there is the question "sex", that is, your gender. How would you answer this question? Seems so simple? Not really! Here's how to turn a conversation around -

... Dear David,
Please help me! I feel confused about this very personal question "Sex". What do you expect me to write over there? The problem is that I had no sexual relations for about 5 years, since my ex-gilfriend heavily damaged my genitals. She cut off half of my penis with a knife, it was terrible !!! All because I loved her collegue without a police permit. In our country, Bukharia, you need a special permit from the police in order to have sexual ralations with a woman.
Do I need to write about it? ...

And here's another option. Do you think loving hearts can be separated by gender reassignment surgery? Let's get a look -

... Dear Dennis,
Are you male of female? To say the truth, I feel no difference because I "m bi-sexual. I was born as a woman, however, later I changed my sex in the name of GOD. After the operation I look like a male, my only problem is unstable potention since my penis was taken from another person who was killed during the civil war in Afghanistan.
I ask for your great patience and love, since I "m not such a usual person to fall in love with. Is it OK with you?
Yours ...

Perhaps these games are time-consuming?

Not at all. It's like ICQ on your computer. You are busy with business, and if you just want to distract yourself from work, you raise the window with the black brothers and watch. What's new? Oh great, Mr. Bumba answered you and sent you a photo of his runaway daddy, the Prince of Rwanda? Fine, but not if this whole family converts to Hinduism, and the photograph is of poor quality - either a prince or a princess? Hah!

Routine

Okay, I’ll take care of booking a flight from Port of Portugal to Madrid at the end of January, and then from Madrid to Paris. The fact is that Ryanair changed the schedule for my flight from Porto to Paris, notifying me of this 2 weeks before departure. And now the plane flies 6 hours earlier, which is absolutely unacceptable for a number of reasons. They are ready to return the money, which I have already used, but now I have to look for alternative flight options. Mdda.

Every month, Kaspersky Lab filters catch tens of thousands of letters from fraudsters in different languages.

Newbies who have recently started using the World Wide Web and therefore either are not familiar with security tips or are simply naive enough and ready to take the tempting promises of scammers seriously.

Kaspersky Lab expert Maria Rubinstein in her article talks about one of the most common types of fraud - the so-called "Nigerian letters".

They got this name because they first appeared in Nigeria in the 1980s. The essence of the fraudulent scheme is simple.

Initially, the attackers wrote letters, as a rule, on behalf of the widows of disgraced Nigerian officials / dictators and asked for help in transferring their millionth fortune abroad. The recipient of the letter was promised a solid reward for this service.

To successfully complete the operation, the addressee was required to pay overhead costs, spending insignificant funds in comparison with the promised profits. Having received them, the inconsolable rich widow disappeared.

Over time, the arsenal of scammers has been replenished with new stories. Now the legend may vary.

For example, swindlers lure a victim with a message about an inheritance left by an unknown rich relative or write on behalf of the military who have found the treasure of a murdered terrorist in some "hot" spot.

But even in this case, having entered into a correspondence, the gullible recipient of the letter learns that in order to receive the promised amount, one must either pay for opening an account, or pay for the services of intermediaries, or incur some other expenses - completely insignificant in comparison with the future jackpot.

Having received money, a widow, a lawyer for a deceased relative, or an American soldier stop responding to letters, and it is no longer possible to find them.

An example of a "Nigerian" spam email generated by an automated translator

Expensive,

I am Paul Coffey (CAT), writing to you in connection with my late client Mr. PACergeyev, who passed away on April 21, 2003 along with the whole family.I tried to find any of his family members to help in repartrating the fund that he held in-house funding of USD $ 10.5million.

Please I would like to contact me via my personal email address [email protected] so that I can give details of the claim.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

God bless you.

Best wishes,

Barr.koffi Paul (S.A.T)
**********@hotmail.com

“If in a letter a stranger promises you millions as an inheritance, as a gift or as a reward for mediation, think carefully before answering.

Such messages are sent only by scammers, warns Maria Rubinstein. - And if a stranger sends scanned copies of documents as proof of his honesty, do not rush to believe him.

Fraudsters usually have no problems with falsifying documents. If you receive a tempting email from an unknown sender, the safest thing to do is to simply delete it. "

The stories behind the "Nigerian letters" fraud are quite varied.

Most often, letters are sent on behalf of a former king, president, high-ranking official or millionaire with a request for assistance in banking operations related to transferring money from Nigeria or another country abroad, receiving an inheritance, etc. due to persecution in their home country. Nigerian letters were sent, in particular, on behalf of Khodorkovsky's personal secretary.

Another common variant is letters, allegedly from a bank employee or from an official who learned about the recent death of a very wealthy person "with the same last name" as the recipient of the letter, with an offer to help in obtaining money from this person's bank account.

These letters usually refer to amounts of millions of dollars, and the recipient is promised a considerable percentage of the amounts - sometimes up to 40%.

The fraud is professionally organized: the scammers have offices, a working fax machine, their own websites, often the scammers are connected with government organizations, and the attempt of the recipient of the letter to independently investigate does not reveal any contradictions in the legend.

Then the victim is asked for money for fees, gradually increasing the amount of fees for cashing out, or for bribes to officials, or they may, for example, be required to put 100 thousand dollars in a Nigerian bank, motivating on behalf of the bank employees that otherwise the transfer of money is prohibited.

In some cases, the victim is offered to travel semi-legally to Nigeria, ostensibly for a secret meeting with a high-ranking official (without a visa), where he is kidnapped or arrested for illegally entering the country and money is extorted from him for his release. In the worst cases, he may even be brutally killed.

Often in the course of extortion, fraudsters use psychological pressure, assuring that the Nigerian side, in order to pay the fees, sold all its property, mortgaged the house, etc.

Of course, the victim does not receive the promised money anyway: it simply does not exist.

Although the mechanism of fraud has been explained in detail in the media for many years, the mass mailing leads to the fact that more and more victims are found who give large sums of money to fraudsters.

Young students or graduates of Nigerian universities who did not find proper jobs played a significant role in the dissemination of Nigerian letters. Later the genre spread to other countries.

Recently, the police in many countries and the authorities in Nigeria have begun to take harsh measures to investigate and stop the distribution of Nigerian letters, but the mailings have not stopped.

Relatively recently, Russian analogues of "Nigerian letters" have appeared, in which correspondence is conducted on behalf of a non-existent "Russian businessman" who supposedly needs the addressee's help in transferring his huge fortune from Russia to another country (of course, for a generous reward).

Common features of Nigerian letters:

In almost every case, there is a sense of urgency. Force majeure circumstances are mentioned. Often in the subject line they write "urgent, very urgent"
Most correspondence is sent by fax or email.
Various references are used to various kinds of documents, printed publications, legislative acts designed to inspire the victim's confidence.
A certain elitism of the proposed relations is emphasized in every possible way. That is why the proposal comes from supposedly high-ranking officials, widows of political leaders of various heirs, etc. The scammers are presented to the recipient as a high-ranking official or representative of a wealthy family that fell out of favor with the ruling regime.
Almost always, the amounts appearing in letters range from US $ 10 million to US $ 80 million. The recipient is offered to work for a large percentage - up to 30% of the total amount.
Emphasis is placed on the confidential nature of the transaction, even some illegitimacy is emphasized. All this is necessary so that after a successful scam, the victim does not run to complain to the police for fear of being caught in illegal operations.
Another indispensable attribute of this game is to ensure that the victim does not have to work hard to fulfill the terms of the deal. This condition is one of the most important, as lovers of "freebies" most often turn out to be the main patients of these Basilio cats. Who doesn’t want to bury a couple of coins and then shake off a whole bunch from a grown tree.

On Wikipedia, you can find a masterpiece featuring a Nigerian-Soviet cosmonaut (a kind of masterpiece of the epistolary genre):

My name is Bakare Tunde, I am the brother of the first Nigerian cosmonaut, Major of the Nigerian Air Force Abaka Tunde. My brother became the first African cosmonaut to go on a secret mission to the Soviet Salyut-6 station back in 1979. Later he took part in the flight of the Soviet Union T-16Z to the secret Soviet space station Salyut-8T. In 1990, when the USSR fell, he was just at the station. All the Russian team members managed to return to the ground, but my brother did not have enough space in the ship. From then until today, it has been forced to be in orbit, and only rare Progress cargo ships supply it with the necessary. Despite everything, my brother does not lose his presence of mind, but he longs to return home, to his native Nigeria. Over the long years that he spent in space, his gradually accumulating salary amounted to 15 million US dollars. This amount is currently held in a bank in Lagos. If we can get access to the money, we can pay Roscosmos the required amount and arrange a flight to Earth for my brother. The amount requested by Roscosmos is $ 3,000,000. However, we need your help in order to receive the amount, since we, the Nigerian civil servants, are prohibited from all transactions with foreign accounts. Eternally yours, Dr. Bakare Tunde, leading astronaut.

By the way, if you want to laugh even more, I suggest you the article http://cripo.com.ua/?sect_id=7&aid=5847, part of which was the basis for writing this article. Following the link, you can find the correspondence of one of the fighters against swindlers, in fact, with a swindler. I was laughing 🙂

So, watch out, scam: Nigerian letters!

The readers of the portal began to apply with a request to clarify the situation related to the massive attack on their e-mail boxes with proposals for cooperation.

As our readers report, most of the letters are addressed by unfamiliar citizens of distant and little-known African countries.

Greetings from Nigeria!

Have you ever received an email asking for help in conducting a multi-million dollar transaction for an immodest percentage of the transaction? Has the widow of the President of Zaire approached you with such a proposal? Or maybe the daughter of the former president of Liberia? If so, then with a high degree of probability the well-known Nigerian spammers tried to deceive you.

Nigerian spammers are an organized criminal network that has been operating almost all over the world since the early 80s of the XX century and engaged in financial frauds related to extorting money from people.

Before the massive spread of the Internet, Nigerian letters were sent to addressees by "hard" mail or fax. Since the early 2000s, a wave of African monetary messages has literally swept the World Wide Web.

In the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, "Scam 419" (so named according to the article of the Criminal Code of Nigeria, which provides for punishment for financial fraud) came to Belarus.

One of the most famous cases of deception by cunning Nigerians of our compatriot occurred in 2007. At that time, the Belarusian businessman "presented" more than $ 200 thousand to the fraudsters.

What do Nigerian letters write about?

The various plots of Nigerian fraud have long been well studied by law enforcement agencies in different countries. Nevertheless, even this does not prevent criminals from making hundreds of millions of dollars (!) From unsuspecting victims around the world every year.

Most often, letters from unknown addressees come on behalf of prominent persons: royal families, high-ranking officials or the richest businessmen from Central African countries (Nigeria, Zaire, Angola, CAR, etc.).

The logically coherent message sets out the primary information necessary for the "fish to peck". For example, an offer to make easy money by participating in a completely legal transfer of astronomical amounts from Africa to Europe. All that needs to be done is to provide an account through which the money should go, and after transferring it to another European account. A small amount (from $ 100 thousand and more, depending on the offer) can be left to yourself as a reward for the service. Beforehand, of course, it is necessary to pay modest expenses for the mythical service of the operation by an African bank.

In addition to Nigerian princes and Angolan politicians, bank employees of various African structures can also send letters asking for help in financial matters.

So, one of the most common proposals of this kind in the early 2000s in Europe was the appeal of the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuk, who, through a computer monitor, personally invited Internet users to help him in obtaining a fabulous sum of money stolen from the pan-African treasury by cashing it out through ATMs. the country in which the victim lives. A small financial deposit was taken to transfer money from Africa to another continent.

Who writes from Nigeria?

The main task of the scammers is to "hook" the victim in the first letter, telling a completely true story with the involvement of albeit little-known, but speaking surnames and names of distant African politicians and businessmen.

Today, there are even several specialized resources on the Internet dedicated to the "419 Scam" (for example, 419.bittenus.com), where you can find a "black" list of persons on behalf of whom Nigerian spammers send letters.

So, the most famous and favorite figureheads of fraudsters are:

Maryam Abacha(Mariam Abacha), widow of the 10th President of Nigeria;
Olusegun Obasanjo(Olusegun Obasanjo), 12th President of Nigeria;
Umaru Yar "Adua(Umaru Yar-Adua), current President of Nigeria;
David Mark(David Mark), President of the Senate of Nigeria;
Adeniji olu(Adenyu Olu), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria;
Shamsuddeen usman(Shamsuddin Usman), Minister of Finance of Nigeria;
Charles soludu(Charles Soludu), Executive Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria;
Charles taylor(Charles Taylor), former President of Liberia;
Donald kaberuka(Donald Kaberuca), President, African Development Bank;
Stella sigcau(Stella Sikkau), former South African Labor Minister;
Susan shabangu(Susann Shabangu), Minister of Health and Safety of South Africa;
Ban ki-moon(Ban Ki-moon), UN Secretary General;
Robert swan mueller iii(Robert Mueller), the head of the US FBI.

In addition to the high-ranking officials themselves, letters from Africa can also come from their children, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters.

And here are a few more options that Nigerian spammers like to speculate on:

a son / daughter of a well-known political criminal who was killed by opposition forces in a distant African country writes from a refugee den, asking for help to steal from the country a couple of billion dollars that his / her father “stole” during his public service;
the banker offers to share with him a part of someone else's money account of his rich client, for which it is necessary first to bribe a mythical official;
the lawyer informs about the death of a distant relative abroad and offers to participate in the opening of the inheritance, for which he asks to send a certain amount as payment for the state duty;
on behalf of a reputable company, a letter comes with a proposal to fill a very serious vacancy, access to which can be carried out only after paying the necessary fees;
overseas company announces winning the lottery. In order to receive money from abroad, you must pay a fee;
a letter comes from a charitable organization with a proposal for a voluntary donation of money to a non-existent church in Africa;
dating sites receive messages from girls or young people who tell the same story that they are forced to emigrate to Somalia due to a coup in their country, and in order for them to be able to return home, they need a little money;
an offer to give in good hands puppies / kittens of elite breeds, for the transfer of which to the country of destination it is necessary to pay (we have already written about this).

By the way, especially for the gullible Russian-speaking victims, the Nigerians have even taken the image of Mikhail Khodorkovsky into circulation, writing from prison and offering in sentimental letters to the victims to help him in opening multibillion-dollar accounts hidden from the investigation in Swiss banks. As usual, interest, fees, payments are promised for helping people.

Why Nigeria?

Nigeria is not the poorest state in Africa. However, with its large oil reserves, the country has long suffered from political instability and corruption of the highest rank. Nigeria's oil money often goes into the bureaucratic pocket, leaving the people - the legitimate owners of mineral deposits - with nothing.

The high crime rate associated with the low income of the country's population in the early 80s of the XX century provoked an increase in the number of fraudsters specializing in financial fraud in the country.

Many specialists involved in the fight against criminals believe that graduates of Nigerian universities play a large role in the formation of gangs, who subsequently do not have the opportunity to find decent work in their country.

In addition to Nigeria, which became the ancestor of the criminal business, fraudulent letters come to addressees from other African countries, about the fate of which the honorable residents of the United States and Europe know little about.

At various times, the electronic boxes of ordinary Americans and Europeans were attacked by residents of Angola, Benin, Gabon, Liberia, Gambia, Somalia, South Africa, etc.

Most likely, similar “greetings” from London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Dubai and other large cities, where a large diaspora of immigrants from Central Africa live, can be attributed to the number of “Nigerian” letters.

Professionalism on the verge of fantasy!

If you naively believe that Nigerian scammers are two and a half black citizens who have never received a penny from spamming in their entire criminal life, you are deeply mistaken.

The turnover of Nigerian spammers, according to various estimates, varies from $ 100 million to $ 1 billion a year, and the fraudsters have entire front organizations with real addresses, phone numbers and even secretaries, lawyers, accountants.

Although with all this, the scheme of criminal activity is very simple. In the first stage, hundreds of thousands of emails with various offers of cooperation are distributed over the network via an Internet email address aggregator. Of course, most of those who receive such letters are deleted. But there is always a small percentage of gullible citizens who are ready to earn a little "for free".

It is at the very moment when the spammers receive a reply letter from the victim asking what and how to do, the following characters are included in the game - not just ordinary Africans who speak English badly, but practically certified specialists. In the future, they enter into a dialogue with the victim, extracting all the necessary data from her: information about accounts, personal numbers, passwords, etc.

At times, the correspondence can last for months until the victim is "ripe" to send money abroad. As a rule, the account to which it is necessary to transfer a certain amount in order to receive a gigantic percentage of a profitable transaction is located in European banks, which is why the victims may not be worried about the situation.

After the first "levy", the correspondence may continue (if the "client" is ready to pay more), or it may end suddenly. The account to which the money was transferred is immediately closed.

Finding the ends of the Nigerian criminal business is very difficult, almost impossible. In the entire history of spammers, only a few members of criminal gangs were caught, and even then only small fry.

By the way, international practice is familiar even with cases when, in pursuit of the mythical Nigerian billions, people came to various African countries, where they were captured and waited for release from relatives for ransom. Most often, an invitation to come to Nigeria semi-legally (without a visa) was received by businessmen who were able to pay for their lives.

Despite the long history of “Nigerian” letters, fraud continues to flourish, including among Belarusian Internet users.

The portal asks all readers to be careful and carefully handle unfamiliar e-mails arriving in the mailbox and unfiltered as spam!