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"I first met Jenny Suping on one of those free "friend networks" called www.friendcircles.com on August 11th of 2007. We chatted many times as "friends" and she would ask me to send a cell phone to her. I told her that I would like to get to know here more. She then started asking me (around $300) to send money to her, so she can buy a cell phone herself. I was hesitant about it, but said "no" even though she got mad. We would e-mail and chat awhile after that to get to know each other. Then recently, she asked me to cash a Money Gram (Walmart?) [to help for her school-dont' understand why she couldn't cash it back at home; I kept thinking the American dollar is higher and would be worth more if she transferred it here-I don't know??] to a friend (VALASHIYA NANGAMSO) and then asked me to change the name to her school manager (Mbongeni Sibusiso Mthupha)...
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Send an Instant Message "Jenny suping" fairybuk@yahoo.com
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Subject: I AM SICK BRO SAL
To: "Alpha Omega" ummalpha@yahoo.com
Bro SAL,
I AM SICK IT'S VERY POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE NAME,I JUST CAME OUT FROM THE BANK NOW,THE SAID THAT YOU CAN LEAVE THE REF NO AND THE ADD THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO CHANGE THE NAME,PLS MY BRO SAL,CHANGE JUST THE NAME TO MY SCHOOL MANAGER'S NAME SO THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO PAY MY SCHOOL FEES.HIS NAME AGAIN IS( MBONGENI SIBUSISO MTHUPHA) JUST CHANGE ONLY THE NAME,LEAVE THE MONEYGRAM REF NO AND ADD THE ARE CORRECT,I ONLY NEED YOU TO CHANGE ONLY THE NAME. HAVE A VERY PLEASANT DAY.( MBONGENI SIBUSISO MTHUPHA) DONT MAKE MISTAKE AGAIN PLS
SIS JENNY
" They even called me around 2am (still have the message on my cell phone) my time-seem very desperate. I cashed it for $1,500 and sent it to through the local Money Gram (La Tienda-a mexican store in town) that day.
They would later send me another check of $1,500 to send it to the same guy, which I cashed it and send it through the same service on Monday, November 5th of 2007...
Pls resend it using MR MBONGENI SIBUSISO MTHUPHA,add:17,15th ST,ORANGE GROOVE,2192,JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.he is my school manager PLS
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:12:51 -0800 (PST)
Hello Bro Sal,
How are you doing,hope all is well with you.i just came out from bank now.we have gotten it.thanks so much.
"I didn't realize these checks (total of $3,000) were "fraud" or was not legit until Thursday, November 8th of 2007 when the local bank (Carlen Hone) called me at work in the morning.
I told Carlen that I will chat with "my friend" Jenny today (Saturday, November 10th of 2007) and see if I can get some information behind their "scam" without disclosing any info that the checks were "fraud". I was wondering if I should wait and see if I can get help from an investigation team to catch them next (Monday, November 13th of 2007-the date Jenny plans to send $4,500). Please let me know if this would be possible.
Thanks,
p.s." I'm still not 100% sure if this is a hoax. It could be bad checks and Jenny doesn't know that-wishful thinking, but I don't want to take a chance and do this early. I might not get my money back, but I just don't want this to happen to anyone."
Have been contacted by:
Morris Bremer Bank
Will be contacting:
Today (Sunday, November 18th of 2007), I got another (money gram check(s)-4-$750 to equal $3,000. Here is what it says...
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To: "Alpha Omega"
Sal:)
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or
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Goldman Sachs with "defrauding investors" over subprime mortgage securities, which were largely blamed for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The government agency, which is responsible for regulating the U.S. financial market, alleged that Goldman Sachs failed to disclose crucial information to investors who thus suffered a loss of some 1 billion U.S. dollars...
...But the investigation could reach beyond the Heenes, possibly into the world of reality-show promotions.
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said documents show that a media outlet had agreed to pay the Heenes. Alderden did not name the organization but said it was in an industry that blurs "the line between entertainment and news."..
It's also possible that Heene could face federal charges because he called the Federal Aviation Administration to report his son missing in the balloon. Those charges could include lying to the federal government, a count similar to the one that sent Martha Stewart to prison in her stock-fraud case.
The balloon spectacle was not the first time Richard Heene has run afoul of the law. ..
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"..The New York Federal Reserve, under the direction of current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, prohibited AIG from reporting that it was passing government bail-out funds directly to its buddies on Wall Street, most notably the criminal organization known as Goldman Sachs. More specifically, taxpayers were tapped (or their grand children were) to pay off bad gambling bets made by “counterparties” in the AIG derivatives casino. The mega-insurance corporation wanted banks to take 40 cents on the dollar against toxic CDOs (collateralized debt obligations). The banks turned to New York Fed mob boss Geithner who arranged an AIG sweetheart bailout with full knowledge the money would go to Goldman Sachs and the banksters to cover dollar-to-dollar protection of their gambling losses. Geithner did not report this to Securities and Exchange Commission on December 24. It was to be kept on the QT. In fact, before his confirmation hearings last year, Geithner was recused from matters dealing with specific companies and bailouts....
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"LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian undergraduate has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for obtaining $47,000 (33,382 pounds) from an Australian woman by convincing her over the Internet that he was 57 years old, white, and madly in love with her.
Lawal Adekunle Nurudeen met his victim on the Internet in 2007 and convinced her that he was a British widower called Benson Lawson. He said he was an engineer working in Lagos whose wife and only child had been killed in a car accident.
"The victim, a 56-year-old woman from Australia, told the convict that she wanted a husband and all the men she had met always disappointed her," said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria's anti-corruption police.
"The convict, who is married with three children, instantly replied and told the victim she had met her Mr Right ... He sent the picture of a white man to foreclose any suspicions."
The woman sent Nurudeen money for medical treatment and travel costs to visit Australia. He spent the funds on two plots of land and a Honda Prelude car.
Nigerian confidence tricksters have a long history of extorting money via the Internet through "419" scams, named after the clause that outlaws them in Nigeria's penal code. Many are never caught.
The EFCC said Nurudeen was ordered to pay around $10,000 immediately and a further $250 a month to his victim until the full amount stolen was returned. She would also receive the proceeds of the sale of his land and car.
(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
(For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://af.reuters.com/ )
(Reporting by Nick Tattersall)"
*referred from yahoo.news
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People who fall for so-called "Nigerian scams" aren't victims at all�in fact, they're greedy and should be jailed, according to Nigerian high commissioner Sunday Olu Agbi. He said today that Nigeria has gained a bad reputation because of the scams perpetrated by a minuscule number of people, and that those who find themselves involved with the scams are equally as guilty as those running them.
"The Nigerian Government frowns very seriously on these scams... and every day tries to track down those who are involved," Olu Agbi told the Sydney Morning Herald in response to a previous article on Australians falling for Nigerian scams. "People who send their money are as guilty as those who are asking them to send the money."
Out of the 140 million people in Nigeria, Olu Agbi said that fewer than 0.1 percent were involved in Nigerian scams. The scams, also referred to as 419 scams or advance-fee fraud, predate the Internet, but have exploded in recent years thanks to the proliferation of e-mail and instant money transfers. Although the scams can take on many forms�from payments for products sold on eBay or Craigslist, to deposits on houses and purchases of plane tickets for "true love" on the other side of the ocean�they all follow the same general theme.
Scammers send huge checks to unsuspecting victims with some story attached to explain the overpayment, and the victim is expected to wire back the difference immediately. Eventually when the checks are deposited, they bounce and the victim is out a lot of money. Sometimes, victims are tricked into thinking they'll eventually be paid back and continue to participate in this endless cycle of sending money, especially if the scammer is wooing them romantically (which happens more commonly than one might think, to both men and women).
Although this kind of fraud originates from all over the world, it seems to have an unusually high concentration in Africa and, specifically, Nigeria. This has, unsurprisingly, cast Nigeria in a negative light. Olu Agbi said that Nigeria's reputation for being involved with the scams has even hurt the country's ability to land business deals. "[T]hose who want to transact business with us are always very suspicious," he told the newspaper.
Still, Olu Agbi's "blame the victim" mentality won't help Nigeria win any friends, but education on how to spot 419 scams and avoid falling for them can certainly go a long way in curbing their growth. After all, once victims stop blindly forking over cash, scammers will have to figure out some other way to make money."
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Mystery Shoppers testing out Money Gram Services Scam
Dan Morrill posted 11/12/2008 | Comments (8) , it.toolbox.com
"With a new spin on an old scam, mystery shoppers are being recruited to test money gram systems, by sending your money to the scammer.
While this is pretty darn funny, the reality is that people have actually been recruited as mystery shoppers for various money wire systems, by having the mystery shopper send money to the scammer. The sad part is that this is actually working, sometimes crime does pay. ..
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