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GoNadsGo
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Posts: 31
Location: on ice...
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Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:06 pm |
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The" Its your grandson calling and I'm in jail send money" scam.
The following is a link to a two part video and a supporting article:
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/MSNHome/20101124/w5-the-grandson-scam-101124/
An excellent piece of investigative journalism shown on a Canadian National Network (CTV) this week.
From the article...
Police believed Ojo, a Nigerian who had lived in Canada since 1998, was part of a network of criminals, spread across Canada, targeting the elderly on both sides of the border.
He was charged with fraud over $5,000 and could have gone to trial in Canada where, being a first-time offender, he might have received a sentence of, at most, a year.
However, prosecutors in the United States believed he had received more than $600,000 from 120 victims in Pennsylvania, so they wasted no time in asking for extradition.
Ojo is now being held at a federal detention centre in Philadelphia. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
An excellent read/video(s) for all parents/grandparents.
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Jeannette
Baiting Guru
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 2158
Location: Stalking Nick Riewoldt
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Tue Nov 30, 2010 6:22 pm |
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Thanks for posting! |
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Morgain Le Fay
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Oct 2010
Posts: 5800
Location: Taking my new .38 special to the range
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Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:26 pm |
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Hopefully, he will not be incarcerated at a prison where the inmates have computer access or he will be back in some kind of scamming business. |
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jrhc
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 Jul 2010
Posts: 255
Location: Playing for fool from behind the bottom of his heart
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Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:56 am |
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Seems like ol' Ojo learned a lesson he won't soon forget... I've actually heard of an especially vicious version of this scam where the scammer calls the victim and impersonates the victim on the phone. Nasty stuff. |
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Fowan Nyne
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Aug 2009
Posts: 3720
Location: Miniluv
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Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:37 pm |
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The US need someone to help with their figures. As a lot of lads use similar scripts, it looks like this lad is going to pay for a lot of other lads' crimes.
Oh well Ojo.
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