Day: November 23, 2005

Nigerian fraudsters jailed for $240m bank sting – Government & Law – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com Two of the perpetrators of the largest ever fraud in Nigerian history have been jailed for a total of 37 years. According to Reuters, Emmanuel Nwude was sentenced to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12 years for their part in a scam which brought down Brazilian bank Banco Noroeste. The two men agreed to forfeit assets worth $121.5m to victims of the scam. Click on link above for more info.

EarthLink’s pursuit lands spammer in can | CNET News.com A Florida man known as the “timeshare spammer” was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday for clogging in-boxes with millions of unsolicited e-mail messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under federal anti-spam laws. Peter Moshou plead guilty in June to violating the U.S. Can-Spam Act after EarthLink sued him in January. In its suit, EarthLink alleged that Moshou sent millions of junk e-mail messages in 2004 and 2005 offering brokerage services for people interested in selling their timeshares. The suit charged Moshou with numerous

Nigerian e-mail scammers jailed |CNET News.com AGOS-A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years in prison for their part in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million, the biggest scam in Nigerian history, newspapers reported on Saturday. The sentencing of Emmanuel Nwude to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12 years follows negotiations in which they agreed to plead guilty to 16 of the 91 original charges, and to forfeit assets worth at least $121.5 million to the victims of the scam. A third fraudster, Amaka Anajemba, was sentenced to two and a