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Microsoft to fight 419 Scammers?

Nigeria enlists Microsoft to fight spam scammers
Andy McCue, ZDNet News 2005-10-14

Microsoft is planning to work with the Nigerian government to help track down and prosecute criminals involved in e-mail scams and other Internet-based fraud originating from the African country.
The 419 problem is very difficult to frame now that it has expanded from cafe surfers in Nigeria to Asian (and some say even Middle Eastern) cafes.

This was written by zeroday. Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at 6:58 pm. Filed under Digital Warfare. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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