Nigerian Scheme vs. Citibank

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Not only regular folks fall for the Nigerian schemes… :eek:

Nigerian Accused in Scheme to Swindle Citibank

By BENJAMIN WEISER
Published: February 20, 2009
Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person’s bank account are so well known that most potential victims can spot them in seconds.

But one man found success by tweaking the formula, prosecutors say: Rather than trying to dupe an account holder into giving up information, he duped the bank. And instead of swindling a person, he tried to rob a country — of $27 million.

link for entire story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21scam.html?hp

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I have no idea what Nigeria looks like, but to me it is a bunch of dingy backrooms filled with computers and cobbled together electrical systems and everyone there is trying to scam someone.

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naw…that’s not a typical Nigerian scam.
The NY Times article describes a sophisticated con game. The criminals created realistically faked documents, naming specific accounts and their owners who are already known by the bank, with signatures that match the ones on file at the bank .

not like the Nigerian 401 scammers who were tricked into re-enacting Monty Pythons parrot sketch because they thought they had a sucker

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And when they scammed the Mormons, I said nothing (but only gave a link).