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Nigerian Petroleum scam

2001-01-30 02:47:48+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Woohoo! I just got the Nigerian Petroleum scam letter air mail, with two cool looking stamps from the Republique Du Benin. There's info on an interested related scam involving NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORP. v. CITIBANK, N.A

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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 05:31:02+00 by: ccoryell

If you're into that kind of thing, I highly reccommend The Big Con. It tells some amazing stories of different stings. -ccm

#Comment made: 2001-01-30 06:02:40+00 by: Dan Lyke [edit history]

Oooh. Gonna have to look at that one. Frank W. Abagnale was a childhood hero... It always amazes me how many of these cons are of the "I never considered that that would be an open[Wiki] security hole" type.