Nigerian Prince #984572378540 > CitiBank

[Hyndis]

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21scam.html

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I think I saw a scheme like that on Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

[ditchdj]

Amazing how gullible people still are.

This scam is as old as dirt and just googling "Nigerian Scam" in Google I came up with all these recent newslinks....

http://www.jdnews.com/news/counterfe...ge_checks.html

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11691598

http://gothamist.com/2009/02/21/doj_...bank_out_o.php

-----As hard as it sounds, maybe slapping some of these suckers with Federal Charges will make a difference, because repeated warnings from REAL government officials is obviously not working.

[tropicsgoddess]

It's pretty sad that there's still people out there that fall for that scam.

[lordlundar]

And Citibank is asking for MORE money from the Gov't.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Report-Citi-talks-feds-increase/story.aspx?guid={9C420F15-993C-4BF5-AC4C-20AD3F660274}

Gotta love your tax dollars at work saving trash like this.

[draggar]

And Citibank is asking for MORE money from the Gov't.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Report-Citi-talks-feds-increase/story.aspx?guid={9C420F15-993C-4BF5-AC4C-20AD3F660274}

Gotta love your tax dollars at work saving trash like this.

I was going to say the same exact thing.

Seriously - people don't learn, do they?

[mattm04]

WTF! Why do people still fall for this crap? A BANK no less.