Nigerian Internet Scams Can Be Detected

One of my clients has, over the past week, given me two unsolicited e-mails he received and asked me to check out. Both were obviously Nigerian scams. The first purportedly was from a British soilicitor at a London law firm. The law firm does exist, and on its website disavowed any connection to the scheme.

The second e-mail asked him to e-mail certain personal information to a manager  at "FedEx Express" in Benin (an African country, I think) so he could collect $1.5 million that was been held for him at that facility. I Googled "FedEx Express" and found it on a site called crime-online. The link is http://crime-online.info and  appears to be a bulletin board of sorts to report such shenanigans.