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Article: BEHIND THE NIGERIAN SCAMS\ AFRICAN COUNTRY HAS BECOME A HAVEN FOR INTERNET CONS.(Business)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2005
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Byline: Dulue Mbachu Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Day in, day out, a strapping, amiable 24-year-old who calls himself Kele B. heads to an Internet cafe, hunkers down at a computer and casts his net upon the cyber-waters.
Blithely oblivious to signs on the walls and desks warning of the penalties for Internet fraud, he has sent out tens of thousands of e-mails telling recipients they have won about $6.4 million in a bogus British government "Internet lottery."
"Congratulation! You Are Our Lucky Winner!" it says.
So far, Kele says, he has had only one response. But he claims it paid off handsomely. An American took the bait, he ...