Police maintain uneasy truce with cybervigilantes
News The police are working with certain cybervigilante groups, using them as a source of information in the fight against fraud, according to sources within the Metropolitan Police Fraud Alert Unit. We have good relationships with groups like Artists...
[January 17, 2007, 14:37]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
News Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud. South African police believe that the six people are part of an international fraud and drug-dealing cartel, and...
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
Nigeria renews efforts to stop 419 scammers
News The notorious email scam is also known as the 419 scam -- 419 being the part of the Nigerian criminal code that relates to fraud. Back in May 2002, six people were arrested in South Africa on suspicion of involvement in the fraud.
[November 27, 2003, 10:10]
Microsoft 'lends security expertise' to Nigeria
News The term 419 comes from the part of the Nigerian criminal code that relates to fraud. The organisation recently carried out a study in Lagos and found that up to 1000 people were involved in email fraud in the city, with the majority of it being...
[October 14, 2005, 17:50]
419 spammers use Holocaust to boost credibility
News According to BlackSpider, six percent of the spam it sees is fraud-related. A spammer has bombarded at least 75,000 inboxes with an email scam that offers recipients a share of $35m (£19.5m) from a World War II Holocaust victim's bank account...
[October 1, 2004, 17:40]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
Talkback I believe the '419' fraud will persist until such a time that both the initiator and the 'potential receiver' are hammered with the full weight of the national/international aws, as should be the case.
[May 22, 2005, 0:19]
International push to fight high-tech scams
News Representatives of more than 60 law enforcement agencies and regulators from around the world gathered in London on Friday to try and formulate international cooperation against the rising tide of marketing fraud schemes, many of which rely on...
[February 27, 2004, 16:35]
US charges email scammers
News A quartet of suspected email scammers — three of them Nigerian citizens — could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.
[March 24, 2006, 9:45]
OFT can't cope with internet scams
News Mike Haley, head of the OFT Scambusters team, said on Wednesday that his team's expertise lay in dealing with "real world" trading scams, rather than online fraud. One of the most well-known scams is the 419 fraud, an advance money scam where...
[January 25, 2007, 11:32]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
News The Nigerian government has set up a unit in London to fight the fraud, but many people are still being taken in. The Metropolitan Police, in conjunction with the Specialist Crime Operational Command Unit, has set up a Web page containing advice...
[October 3, 2002, 11:56]
Psychiatrist 'gave millions to email scammers'
News Nigerian' email scams — also known as 419 scams after the section of Nigerian legal code that deals with fraud — begin with a message offering the recipient a very large sum of money in return for helping to move an even larger amount of cash out...
[March 3, 2006, 11:55]
Scamalot
Blog Firstly, it's based on old data from CIFAS (the anti-fraud body, or one of them at least). Secondly, CIFAS never said these figures were all down to email-based fraud. I've been glancing through Michael Peel's Chatham House report Nigeria-Related...
[November 20, 2006, 13:55]
Web vigilantes launch attacks
News The criminals who operate the 419 scam, also known as the advance fee fraud, send out emails, letters and faxes asking for help to recover a large sum of money from a bank, in return for a share of the loot.
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
Fatal shooting linked to Nigerian email fraud
News Early reports from the scene suggest that the pensioner had contacted the embassy to complain about being defrauded after falling for the infamous Nigerian email fraud, also known as the 419 email fraud, and losing his life savings.
[February 20, 2003, 15:36]
Survey: ID theft costing UK billions in taxes
Talkback Social Security and Benefits fraud may well be running at around £2 billion a year, but the "identity theft" component of this is only around £50 million, out of total payments of over £100 billion a year.
[July 15, 2004, 1:36]
Fraud buck will stop with network operators
Talkback I read the article about the Nigerian fraud. I was victim of one. I tried to send a mail to the address you mention in the article to report it but I can't.spring39.demon.co.uk Please let me know if it is correct or if you have any other mail...
[July 13, 2006, 1:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This has been going on for decades - first by fax, and now by email -- and despite intensive investigation by anti-fraud organisations around the world has shown no sign of abating. Tuesday 21/05/2002
[May 27, 2002, 17:26]
Britons fall victim to Internet scams
News The Association of Payments and Clearing Schemes said that online fraud cost banks £12m last year. Half of the UK's Internet-using community have been targetted with some form of online scam, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
[May 3, 2005, 11:45]
Nigeria renews efforts to stop 419 scammers
Talkback Please help me some people i dony know are trying to use my picture on my web site including the web site for internet fraud. Please what can I do to set a warrning message on the web site so that if any body open this web site this will be first...
[June 7, 2004, 13:41]
MoD refuses to account for missing computer equipment
News See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on hacking, fraud, viruses and related issues. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to respond to Parliamentary questions, tabled in late October, which revealed that nearly 600 computers had...
[January 15, 2002, 13:30]
