Everyone with half a brain can spot the Nigerian e-mail scam, “Dear Sir, excuse me contacting you out of to blue to offer you an insane amount of money in return for your banking details, etc, etc….”

But not so a Brazilian bank, which was taken hook, line and sinker, forfeiting at least $170 million dollars as a down payment on an non-existent construction contract.

The three scammers were jailed on e-mail fraud charges for a total of more than 39 years yesterday. And they had to give back the money. Full story on CNet’s news.com.

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Tags: e-mail, e-mail fraud, scam

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