Nigerian ‘Prince’ Gets 12 years for Scams

We ran a story several days ago on the Top 7 Internet Scams and the Nigerian Lottery Scam was right up there at the top. If you still have business pending with the ‘Prince’ you may contact him via the Federal Prison System for the next 12 years. One down, hundreds of Nigerian Princes to go.

Diamreyan made more than US$1.3 million in a scam that suckered 67 victims between 2004 to 2009, prosecutors said. This type of fraud, called an advance-fee scam, was the number-one type of Internet fraud in 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Last year, advance-fee fraud accounted for nearly 17 percent of the Internet fraud logged by the FBI.

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