The Nigerian government has stepped firmly in the fight against e-fraudulent activities. It haslaunched a 'Project Eagle Claw' that aims at cracking down the crooks.  It is reported that they have already made a number of arrests. It is reported that the project is in collaboration with Microsoft, this time expecting it to bear more positive fruits than the previous cracking down attempts. Read more on this announcement at: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/nigeria-actually-arrests-shuts-down-online-scammers.ars

Most of us enjoy the free email services from Yahoo! Gmail, Hotmail or elsewhere, but we can not escape the incoming bogus deals from, God knows who, crooks, who request money upfront in the promise that you have some free unclaimed money waiting for you somewhere. They claim to be your cousin from your (unknown) grandpa's side the 3rd twice removed, a Prince or Son of a King, the only Son or Daughter of a wealthy businessman or an heir of somebody rich who died in a fatal accident.... all of these commonly referred to as 'Nigerian Scams'  or '419 scam' or 'Advance Fee Fraud' are worthless. They have this appealing nature, so persistent, in making sure that you fall for their (false) promised expectations that you are going to receive a lump sum of money soon or later depending on how fast the two of you work the plan out.

Well, one thing is certain and only one thing is true - they are after your money. They are all liars, thieves and criminals. Do not be fooled by them.

As we marked the 40th year since the invention of e-communication technology, genuine internet uses have only one wish and one dream - that is - to wake up one day and hear, 'NO MORE SCAMS'. The scams statistics list continue to grow so it the size of indexed number of junk mails sent out everyday. The number of seconds or minutes you waste cleaning your inbox and junk folder each time you open your emails was the extra minutes you needed for your leisure time. Count in the number of bytes downloaded when checking those junk mails for deletion, don't forget that, that adds up to your internet usage you are paying for, and oh, the nuisance of all that junk, that counts towards your health - negatively.

Down with scams and junk mails until they die.