[ILUG] Re: [ILUG] CONFIDENTIAL - From Nigeria with love (gearán beag)

[Matt Rudge]

McGahon, Dermot wrote:
> 
> these emails are coming from? If they are being sent within Irish legal
> jurisdiction, again, is anyone legally adept enough to know whether it might
> be possible to stamp these out. Particularily pernicious and persistent,
> this strain of conmail.

Yes - although the IPs normally resolve to a Nigerian or satellite ISP. 
  The only thing I've found that can be done is to see which ISP, or 
web-based e-mail service, they're using and forward the full mail and 
headers to the abuse address.

> Reading through them, it almost feels like somebody is trying to mesmerise
> you by their stunning use of large nouns and verbs. Seriously, can anyone be
> falling for this? I suppose so, otherwise they wouldn't keep doing it.
> 

According to the Crimes of Persuasion page on these 419 scams, they're 
netting an estimated $1m per day through it.  The pages make sobering 
reading when you see the consequences of some peoples greed:

http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Business/nigerian.htm

It's similar to people who've been scammed out of large amounts of money 
by these so-called overseas brokers and boiler-room operations who phone 
promising large profits for small investment.  They seem to be 
increasingly active, I've received at least 4 calls in the last week 
from these operations - all originating outside of Ireland.

Regards

-- 
Matt Rudge
Technical Director
http://www.hcs.ie