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Tech News Woman Gets Two Years for Aiding Nigerian Internet Check Scam (PC World) * Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:30PM EDT * Add articles about technology to your My Yahoo!
Japanese students schooled with Nintendo (Reuters) - A Washington woman was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison and five years of supervised release for her role in an Internet counterfeit check scheme. Edna Fiedler pleaded guilty in March to attempting to defraud US citizens in a scheme known as a Nigerian check scam. Fiedler helped her accomplices in Nigeria send fake checks to people who had agreed to cash the checks on behalf of the sender, keeping some of the proceeds and sending the rest back. The Nigerians found people willing to cash the fake checks via e-mail. They would send their names as well as fake documents that looked like Wal-Mart money orders, Bank of America checks, US Postal Service checks and American Express traveler's checks to Fiedler. They told her how to fill out the checks and where to send them. The recipients most likely thought they were helping out someone who needed a person in the US to cash a check for them, according to the US Department of Justice. They were able to get the money by cashing the checks, and sent most of it to either Fiedler or her Nigerian accomplices. However, once the checks were discovered to be fake, the people who cashed them were responsible for the full amount. All told, Fiedler sent out US$609,000 worth of phony checks and money orders. At a recent conference in Seattle, a representative from the US Postal Service and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna described ways they're working to shut down these kinds of scams, particularly because they often involve people who don't realize that they're taking part in illegal activities.
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