Posted on 02/22/2009 10:18:05 AM PST by LibWhacker
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.
To carry out the elaborate scheme, prosecutors in New York said on Friday, the man, identified as Paul Gabriel Amos, 37, a Nigerian citizen who lived in Singapore, worked with others to create official-looking documents that instructed Citibank to wire the money in two dozen transactions to accounts that Mr. Amos and the others controlled around the world.
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Don’t they know that those e-mails are scams?
A Nigerian involved in a scam to swindle money? I’m shocked, just shocked!
LOL...it’s hard to believe that Citi would fall for a Nigerian scam, when everyone else in the US laughs about these transparent frauds. No wonder they’ve gone broke.
If my mortgage wasn’t being held by Citibank, I would think this is funny. I rejected this Nigerian’s emails for years, and they fell for it?
Their derivatives exposure was about 58 billion.
I am thankful to the Nigerians for one thing. Apparently, I had a close relative who was a general, doctor, government official, financier, and scientist who died in a plane crash from cancer and was run over by a car. Had I not recieved an e-mmail I would not have known about this branch of my family. It was also a history lesson, because i didn’t know that anyone in my sicilian family had every been to Nigeria.
Hi mistake was doing it in Singapore. If he’s still there, he’s not long for this world! Singapore’s penalties are rather stiff: death.
I get e-mails from Nigeria promising to deposit millions on my account all the time.
Sounds like they have t to deposit now!
Nigerian? I thought Yobama was Kenyan.
“Mr. Amos was arrested last month as he tried to enter the United States through Los Angeles...”
See, that was his big mistake. Should’ve walked across the AZ border, nothin’ would’ve happened to him.
We should have elected a Nigerian - instead of a Kenyan - as President. Those Nigerians know how the markets work and are smarter than our Wall Street wizards. On the other hand, nobody had ever fallen for any Kenyan scam until BO was elected. (Correction: BO’s mother fell for a Kenyan scam.)
“Nigerian? I thought Yobama was Kenyan.”
12 posts ... (swindle)
I call him Keny
(and there sure is a swindle going on)
Now, the US taxpayer is being suckered into a Kenyan money scam.
Heh :)
ROFLOL, if those Nigerians would spend a tenth of the time trying to make an honest living.”
In Nigeria- this is the highest status of ‘making an honest living’.
I think China's the only place in the world where you can get the death penalty for fraud. To my knowledge, in Southeast Asia, the penalty for fraud is at worst, a stiff prison sentence. Nick Leeson spent 6.5 years as a guest of the Singapore government for the Barings disaster.
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