Reverse Scam
People should petition the law makers to make reverse scamming a scammer perfectly legal and should be encouraged. You than tell the scammer that his account number is not good and need a copy his birth certificate. Now take over his identify and clean out his asset and give to charity. Would that be fun.... Much cheaper than putting them in jail. I heard that they just busted a scam ring: ********************************************************** TorStar Brampton man charged in alleged lottery scam Oct 04, 2007 04:30 AM Nick Pron Courts Bureau The emails are from total strangers and promise great financial reward, such as sharing in an inheritance or helping someone get money out of a foreign country, typically Nigeria. Or they announce that you have just won a lottery, but you have to pay advance fees before collecting your winnings. It almost sounds too good to be true and it is, Canadian and American law enforcement officials said at an international press conference in Washington yesterday announcing the arrests of 77 people, including one Canadian, in Internet scams. Many of the scams originated in the Netherlands, where con artists operated out of Internet cafes, said police. Sixty of the arrests were made there. Henry Afekowa Oshingbeme, 39, of Brampton, was charged with four counts of fraud over $5,000. Police allege Oshingbeme was part of a scheme in which Americans were notified through the Internet they had just won $1 million Euros ($1.4 million), but had to pay various fees first, before the money could be released. The lottery was a fake, as were the Internet banks and financial institutions where the victims sent their money, said a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "The public should be aware and skeptical of promises of lottery winnings made through the Internet," Insp. Brian Verheul said in a news release. "Legitimate lottery winnings require participation in the lottery and never require the payment of a fee to collect winnings." The RCMP, along with the United States Postal Inspection Service, also seized 5,000 counterfeit cheques with a face value of more than $13 million during the investigation, code-named Project Sweep, police said. Worldwide, police seized 540,000 fake cheques with a face value of $2.1 billion. In another fraudulent scheme, the cheques – usually official-looking cashier's cheques – are mailed to people who are told their assistance is required to get a large amount of money, such as an inheritance, out of a country in order to avoid harsh inheritance taxes. The recipient is asked to deposit the cheque, typically in amounts of around $20,000, in their account, and then return a portion as a sign of good faith, usually $3,000 to $5,000, said police. But when the cashier's cheque bounces, the victim has to pay back the bank the amount of the good-faith payment sent overseas, plus any money the victim may have spent from the original cheque before it bounced, said police. Associated Press reported that U.S. Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher told a press conference: "There is no lottery. There is no inheritance. The cheques are not real. "But there are real victims. "The crime knows no borders and our co-ordinated law enforcement knows no borders."
