susannad
02-21-2003, 06:07 PM
It had ro happen !
" A Czech pensioner who claims to have lost money on a notorious email scam has been charged with murdering a Nigerian diplomat.
The 72-year-old man, who has not been named, was arrested following the fatal shooting of Michael Lekara Wayid, the Nigerian Consul, in Prague.
Police said the shooting was in connection with an email scam known worldwide as the Nigerian letters.
It involves emails sent from African countries, including Nigeria, in which people posing as government representatives purport to offer people huge returns for using their accounts in money transfers.
They are then often asked to transfer sums of money to a third party account from their own.
Police claim the pensioner told them he had sent money to various overseas accounts and that Nigeria owed him money.
He faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty."
Reuters
" A Czech pensioner who claims to have lost money on a notorious email scam has been charged with murdering a Nigerian diplomat.
The 72-year-old man, who has not been named, was arrested following the fatal shooting of Michael Lekara Wayid, the Nigerian Consul, in Prague.
Police said the shooting was in connection with an email scam known worldwide as the Nigerian letters.
It involves emails sent from African countries, including Nigeria, in which people posing as government representatives purport to offer people huge returns for using their accounts in money transfers.
They are then often asked to transfer sums of money to a third party account from their own.
Police claim the pensioner told them he had sent money to various overseas accounts and that Nigeria owed him money.
He faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty."
Reuters
