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Saturday, April 2, 2011

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Spain not safe for Nigerian Internet Scammers - Operation Nilo

In 2005 Spanish Police arrested 310 people, mostly Nigerians, operating a scam operating out of Málaga., Southern Spain.

The group was linked to the Nigerian Mafia and sent millions of spam emails around the world claiming falsly that the recipients had won the Spanish Lottery, usually the big Christmas Lottery on 22nd December. Often they put the date as 23rd of December so any Spanish resident would know that it was a scam. 800 people worldwide are known to have fallen victim to this scam, but it is well known that only a very small number of people report to being victims of a scam out of embarassment, a point on which scammers rely on. The victims were asked to send an adminstrative fee to the scammer allegedly to collect the winnings! Often there were more than one request for this fee so the scammer could squeeze more out of their victim.

The hearing in Málaga Court is due to start in November 2011 but only 74 of the 162 defendants have been located. Arrest warrants for the missing defendants have now been issued.

Since we started publishing many types of scams, including those from the Nigerians the amount that we receive in our inbox has diminished to a trickle, even more so since we included this advice.

If you are from Britain please forward details of the scam to The National Fraud Authority (NFA)

Wouldn´t it be nice if we could live in a scam free world :=)

Violence and vandalism - Organisers of protests in the West End should "pay for damage and clean up", a group of 600 retailers has said. Learn from Spain

Dame Judith called on the mayor to route violent marches "away from retail areas" and to ask organisers to "provide a bond or other insurance to pay for damage and clean up costs".

Praising police officers for "coping with the aggression", Mr Johnson (London Mayor) said: "I think it's very disappointing that a legitimate march that had the support of hundreds of thousands of people was really spoilt by the actions of a tiny minority."

He added: "Obviously there has been damage to property and it would be a wonderful thing, frankly, if the organisers of the march would contribute to the costs of clearing it up."

We have advocated that those arrested should cover the cost of the policing or an alternative could be to be to pay for the damage that they caused for it could be prooved beyond all reasonable doubt that when they rose first thing that saturday morning their intention was to cause damage.

In Spain Michael Hanks has been fined 10.000.000 euros and sentenced to 18 months in prision for starting a fire. 227 firefighters took 8 days to extinguish the fire which involved 12 planes and 20 helicoptors. He had lit the fire in a bid to be spotted by rescuers, having got lost whilst out for a walk, but his action razed 2,000 hectares of the Nevada National Park.

England take a leaf out of the Granada Court´s book now

Villanueva del Rosario hoy

El tiempo

The Cherry Tree is now in blossom

Went to the pueblo this morning to get my post and to do the Loteria Primitiva for the 4 days next week. Shakira´s "Sale El Sol" and Enrique Iglesias´"Euphoria" CD´s have arrived, the Dynamic Holdings Limited interim report and Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited have raised their offer to the minority shareholders from HK$5.00 to HK$5.20

Decided not to do any shopping as I have some salmon in the freezer which I can have tomorrow.

I was up first thing this morning sprinkling fertilizer over the lawn whilst it was damp and frightening the black bird away before he could eat the grass seed that I laid yesterday in the back patio.