Microsoft helps Nigeria fight cyber fraud

  1. Posted on Saturday 2 May 2009 - 10:50
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    Murtala Mohamed Kamara, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone
    The world leading computer software company Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nigeria Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to fight cyber crime. Nigeria is among the leading countries in online crime, the 2007 report of Internet Crime Complaint Center said.
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    The group said there are various ways of perpetrating internet crime but the most popular one which is associated with Nigerians is the email scam - a means of extorting money on false pretence and credit card fraud.

    Farida Waziri a representative of EFCC said under the signed new agreement her agency will be able to host the first ever West African Fraud summit in the Nigerian federal capital Abuja in 2009. She said Microsoft through the advance fee coalition will sponsor that event.

    The Vanguard newspaper quoted Waziri to have said that "this MOU seeks to build on the initial MOU 2005 signed by Microsoft and the EFCC that expired October 2008 and under the old arrangement Microsoft actively partnered and provided information and data which led to many arrests and convictions of internet fraudsters in Nigeria."

    The Microsoft Country Manager, Onyeje, said internet scams, identity theft and financial scam is too prevalent in that country and thus undermines the country in its economic development strides.

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