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Hearing: 876-SCAM: Jamaican Phone Fraud Targeting Seniors
March 13, 2013
Special Committee on Aging
United States Senate
113th Congress, 1st Session

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:00pm
Dirksen Room 562
Hearing: 876-SCAM: Jamaican Phone Fraud Targeting Seniors
Member Statement

Don’t Let Nigerian Scams
Skin You Alive.

Nigerian Scams are this under developed West African country’s third largest export industry so don’t count on them being shut down any time soon.

Also called 419 scams (referring to article 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code) they rip off naive internet users to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year.

The biggest victim was Nelson Tetsuo Sakaguchi, a senior director of Brazilian bank Banco Noroeste S.A. of Sao Paulo who embezzled $242 million between 1995 and 1998 in the 3rd biggest scam in banking history.

The bank went bust. $170 million was eventually recovered after fleets of luxury cars and mansions in Nigeria, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. were seized.

Nigerian Scams And Organized Crime.

Research by Aunshul Rege of Rutgers University, USA in 2009 described in detail how well organized Nigerian Scams function:

Young members with computer skills and speed are recruited from the many cyber cafes.

“Organizers” are put to work constructing fake profiles using phony pictures (e.g. from modeling web sites) and fake documents (some provided by dishonest government officials).

Some of these (often college graduates) work composing romantic letters and mapping out online courtships while others acquire e-mail lists for bulk mailing.

Tech savvy hackers are used to steal credit card details and carry out Identity Fraud.

“Cross-overs” (who hold legitimate government and financial positions) also assist criminal networks with fake letterheads, documents, money orders, stamps, seals, id, etc.

“Communicators” establish contact with the targeted “Mugu” (meaning “fool”, sometimes on genuine dating web sites and sometimes using Identity Theft to open accounts on these sites.

“Executors” who can speak foreign languages then go to work scamming unsuspecting victims via email and phone using their communication skills.

Trained Psychologists are sometimes hired to help coach Executors in how to handle difficult “Mugu” (fools or victims).

“Enforcers” are entrusted to coerce or extort victims to pay up, and to protect the organization should aggrieved victims show up trying to reclaim lost money.

“Money Movers” finally facilitate the flow of scammed monies around the globe.

Scammers work 6-8 hour shifts around the clock.
Statistics And Facts On Nigerian Scams.

Experienced scammers expect a “strike rate” of 1 or 2 replies per 1,000 messages emailed; they expect to land 2 or 3 “Mugu” (fools) each week.

One scammer boasted “When you get a reply it’s 70% sure you’ll get the money”.

Some scam members are as young as six years of age.

Nigerian Scams are the country’s 3rd largest export earner and have defrauded millions of victims.

The internet cafes of Lagos (population 14 million) in Nigeria are the hub of Nigerian Scams.

Scammers aim to earn at least $1,000-$2,000 per month. Some earn thousands per week. The average wage in Nigeria is $1 per day.

Some dating web sites screen new applicants and try to filter out scammers. Australia’s Cupid Media rejects up to 3,000 (around 20%) of the 15,000 new profiles it gets daily, especially from specific countries like Nigeria.

Nigerian Romance Scams target men and women in equal numbers.

Stolen credit cards are often used to buy and send flowers and gifts when courting victims.

Scammers are patient and expect to spend 6-8 months “courting” victims.
The Harm Caused By Nigerian Scams.

1. Scam Victim’s Monetary Losses

…some of the bigger ones include:

1992-1994… American business man from San Diego duped out of $5.2 million dollars.

1995-1998… $242 million scammed from a director of Brazil’s Banco Noroeste S.A. of Sao Paulo. This scam also resulted in two murders

2008… American woman from Oregon cheated out of $400,000 in an inheritance scam.

2009… Australian woman loses $600,000 in a romance scam.

A number of these unfortunate victims end up bankrupt.

2. Scam Victims Commit Suicide.

2003… an English senior technician sets himself alight and dies of his burns.

2006… an American hangs himself in South Africa.

2007… a Chinese student in an English university commits suicide after a lottery scam.

3. Scam Victims Kidnapped.

Some desperate victims have attempted to recover their losses by actually traveling to Nigeria (not a good idea) to track down the scammers… with disastrous consequences.

1996… a Swedish business man is kidnapped and $500,000 is demanded for his release.

1999… a Romanian man suffers the same fate and the same $500,000 ransom is demanded.
2008… a Japanese business man is kidnapped and $5 million ransom demanded from his family.

4. Scam Victims Murdered.

1994-1997… scammers are believed to have murdered at least 15 victims of various nationalities during this time.

1999… Norwegian business man is murdered in South Africa in a scam gone wrong.

2004… a 29 year old Greek man is murdered in South Africa after his family refuses to pay a ransom. (ref:Wikipedia)

Brooklyn riot over teen’s death: 16-year-old shot by cops did not have a gun, says witness
Tishana King says she saw the whole incident from a bird’s eye view in her Brooklyn apartment. She says she’s ‘certain’ slain Kimani (Kiki) Gray ‘didn’t having anything in his hands.’

BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND JOHN MARZULLI / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013, 12:38 AM

TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tishana King says she witnessed the shooting of Kimani Gray, 16, Sunday from her window and she says she saw no gun.
A Brooklyn woman who claims she had a “bird’s-eye view” of the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old Kimani (Kiki) Gray says the youth did not have a gun in his hand.

Tishana King is the only civilian eyewitness to come forward, and her account sharply differs from Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s assertion that Gray had pointed a .38-caliber revolver at the cops before they opened fire. “I’m certain he didn’t have anything in his hands,” King told the Daily News.

Moments after the Saturday shooting, one cop put both hands on his head and said, “ ‘Oh, God!’ ” King recalled. “His partner went over to him and put his hand on his shoulder and said, ‘Are you okay, buddy?’ ”

King, 39, a medical records clerk at Kings County Hospital, said she gave a tape-recorded interview to detectives several hours after the shooting. The detectives were aware her 14-year-old son dialed 911 from their apartment after the gunfire. But King, in her nearly eight-minute interview with NYPD investigators at 3 a.m. on Sunday, never said a word about whether Gray was carrying a gun.

Kimani Gray, 16, was shot and killed by police on Sunday. Cops claim Gray had pointed a .38-caliber revolver before he was fired on.

“I couldn’t see what the kids were doing,” she said during the session. The News reviewed the tape of the Q&A conducted in her apartment after the fatal shooting.

Detectives and Internal Affairs Bureau investigators never asked directly if King saw Gray with a gun, and a police source said NYPD policy precludes asking such leading questions.

“They’re just asked to say what happened in as much detail as they can remember,” the source said.

A loaded .38-caliber Rohm’s Industry revolver was recovered from the Brooklyn scene where Kimani Gray was killed. Cops claim Gray pointed the revolver at them, though a witness says the teen was unarmed.

A police spokesman said that when King was asked what she saw by detectives, she told them she couldn’t see what the boys were doing “from the angle I was at.”

But King told The News that, at first, the boys were under her window and that they moved into view when police got out of their car and approached them.

The NYPD has not released the names of the sergeant and cop who fired 11 shots. A police source said the pair initially reported to supervisors that the teen had pulled a gun — and a loaded weapon was recovered at the scene.

King told The News she was drawn to her third-floor East Flatbush window late Saturday night by the sound of loud laughing and talking outside on E. 52nd St.
She said she watched as a burgundy-colored sedan pulled up and a man jumped out of the passenger side, followed by the driver. King initially thought the duo intended to fight with the youths.RELATED: TEEN FATALLY SHOT BY POLICE IN BROOKLYN SATURDAY NIGHT
When the driver yelled, “Don’t move!” it clicked that they were cops, she said. “Kimani started backing up,” King said. “The cop took out his gun and started firing at Kimani.”
King said the area was illuminated by a streetlight and Gray appeared to be cornered by the cops. “His (Gray’s) hands were down,” she said. “I couldn’t believe he let off (fired) his gun. There was no reason. No false move.”
A police source said King never told detectives that Gray was backing up with his hands down.
Kelly said an “earwitness” heard a cop yell, “What do you have in your hands?” but a source said the man was too far away to see the confrontation. The shooting appeared to be within NYPD guidelines, he added.
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Nahtasha Budhi P.S. It’s funny how Amelia “Milk” Sewell, could text me a million times proclaiming her innocence and her loyalty, begging for mercy, but never took the time to congratulate me, on my wedding or inquire about the welfare of my child and new husband. I understand that there is some website set up about her. It has absolutely nothing to do with me. This hater can go clean up her own mess. I suggest she spend more time, understanding the meaning of loyalty, instead of slandering me, in nail salons. LOL. Karma is a bitch and it’s as ugly as this hater. She needs to find out the source of that website, as I had nothing to do with that site and leave me alone. And I am done with this. She just needs to learn to not bite the hand that use to feed her. Just have my money ready.
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NAIROBI — AFRICA must shake off its romantic view of China and accept Beijing is a competitor as much as a partner and capable of the same exploitative practices as the old colonial powers, Nigerian central bank governor Lamido Sanusi has warned.

Reflecting the shifting views of a growing number of senior African officials who fear the continent’s anaemic industrial sector is being battered by cheap Chinese imports, Mr Sanusi cautions that Africa is “opening itself up to a new form of imperialism”.

“China takes from us primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism,” he writes in the Financial Times. His remarks are among the most trenchant by a serving African official about the continent’s ties with the world’s second-largest economy.

Trade between China and Africa was worth more than $200bn last year, 20 times what it was in 2000 when Beijing committed to a policy of accelerated engagement.

It has been a period of growth, partly thanks to Asian demand for African resources.

But a boom in commodities, services and consumer spending has coincided with the relative decline of African manufacturing from 12.8% to 10.5% of regional gross domestic product, according to United Nations figures.

African leaders and the African Development Bank have recently urged governments to work with each other to ensure they maximise benefits from relations with their leading trade partner, but they have traditionally cloaked their concerns in emollient diplomatic language.

In contrast Mr Sanusi has thrown down the gauntlet to Beijing. “China is no longer a ‘fellow underdeveloped economy’,” he writes.

“China is the second-biggest economy in the world, an economic giant capable of the same forms of exploitation as the west. China is a major contributor to the deindustrialisation of Africa and thus African underdevelopment.”

An experienced private sector banker, Mr Sanusi is credited with cleaning up Nigeria’s banking system after a crash that wiped out 60% of bank capital in 2009. He has also given Nigeria’s central bank a more activist role. In his article, Mr Sanusi argues that African countries must respond to “predatory” trade practices — such as subsidies and currency manipulation — that give Chinese exports an advantage.

He also says the continent must build infrastructure and invest in education. “Africa must seize the moment and move manufacturing of goods consumed in Africa out of China to the African continent … I cannot recommend a divorce. However, a review of the exploitative elements in this marital contract is long overdue.”

His comments come ahead of South Africa hosting a summit of Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations next week. South Africa, the largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa, was incorporated into the bloc of Brazil, Russia, India and China last year.

President Jacob Zuma last week told western companies to stop warning against the embrace of China. “China is doing business in a particular way and we think we can see the benefits,” he said. “But we are very, very careful,” he added, citing Africa’s experience of colonialism.

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