Nigerian Slain Over E-Mail Scam
A notorious e-mail scam has resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic.
Fifty-year-old Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria's consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by an unidentified 72-year-old Czech at the Nigerian Embassy in Prague on Wednesday.
According to police reports, the suspect was a victim of the 419 scam, a thriving industry that employs thousands of people around the world. The scammers successfully manage to extort money from thousands of victims by promising them compensation for assistance in moving funds from foreign countries to banks in the United States...more [WIRED]
The person who dies is usually the person stupid enough to fall for this scam. It is a rare month that I do not get several of these. The names change, the country changes but the scam is always the same - help me get money out of the country and you get a reward. "It's the lure of easy money, It's gotta very strong appeal", as Glen Frey would say...mj
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