Murtala Kamara Mohammed, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Eighteen people have been arrested and some 800 fraudulent emails have also faced shut down by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crime Commission in an operation which is titled: Operation Eagle Claw. Farida Waziri head of the country's crime fighting unit has expressed optimism about the operation.
Waziri believed that the operation: “will take Nigeria out of the top 10 list of countries with the highest incidence of fraudulent e-mails."
“We expect that Eagle Claw as conceived will be 100% operational within six months and at full capacity, it will take Nigeria out of the top 10 list of countries with the highest incidence of fraudulent e-mails. ‘' Waziri said in the US ‘gambling’ state of Las Vegas.
Waziri said the Nigerian Police in conjunction with Microsoft will fine tuned the technology that will help check emails "When it is fully deployed, it will afford the EFCC the option of either monitoring or shutting down all fraudulent email addresses. The EFCC would also have identified victims and potential victims and advised them that their email has been compromised” according to theregister.co.uk
Waziri added in her statement that over 800 fraudulent e-mail addresses have been identified and shut down. The EFCC is fine tuning security modalities with Microsoft and upon full deployment, the capacity to take down fraudulent e-mails will increase to 5,000 monthly. Further it is projected that advisory mails to be sent to victims and potential victims will be about 230,000 monthly.”
The West African most populace nation has a damning reputation for email scams. Whiles most Nigerians are against the act some argued that it creates wealth for the country’s most unemployed youths who find their living on the internet. Some musicians even released songs that glorify the act.
Most Nigeria’s who are in that act are known as 419-ers after the relevant section of Nigeria's penal code.
Eighteen people have been arrested and some 800 fraudulent emails have also faced shut down by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crime Commission in an operation which is titled: Operation Eagle Claw. Farida Waziri head of the country's crime fighting unit has expressed optimism about the operation.
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