Woman Involved in the Nigerian Internet Scam Gets Busted

According to some of my sources over at pcworld.com, a woman from Washington was sentenced on Wednesday for the role she played in the Nigerian Internet Check Scam. She was sentenced to two years of prison and five years of supervised parole. The woman, Edna Fiedler pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to defraud U.S. citizens in a scheme referred to as the Nigerian check scam.

Fiedler stated that she helped by sending fake checks to people who had agreed to cash the checks. The goal was to get the victims to cash the fake check, keep a portion of it and return the rest of the cash. All together they say that she sent out more than 609,000 dollars worth of checks to victims, and after searching her home 1.1 million dollars worth of checks that were about to be sent our were discovered.

Fiedler says that the Nigerians would use realistic looking fake documents. Documents that appeared to look like Walmart and Bank of America Money Orders. Once they had found someone willing to cash the fake checks they would instruct her how to fill out the checks and where to send them.

Unfortunately, the people who cashed the fake checks are responsible for the total amount of the check. The success of the scam hinged upon people thinking that they were helping out although one could speculate that a little bit of greed may have been involved. The success of the Nigerian Scam has Federal Authorities looking for better ways to protect the American people.

This serves as a perfect reminder that if it sounds to good to be true it probably is. Having seen several of these letters I must admit I probably would have fallen for it also if AC Content Producer Allen Bell had not warned me. He told me exactly how The Nigerian Scam Works heeding his warnings I avoided that scam.

These days I use plenty of caution trusting only letters and emails from people I know and trust. Now if Bill Gates would hurry and send me my share of the money for forwarding that beta testing email. Let's see that's 245.00 for every person that forwards it and 243.00 for every second person that forwards it and I have sent it to at least a thousand people...dude I'm gonna be rich!!