Spammers Beware: Microsoft and
Benin Republic Team up to Fight
Cybercrime
Mal.
Nuhu Ribadu, EC, EFCC and Neil
Holloway, President of Microsoft
Europe Middle East and Africa.
Benin Republic says a unique
memorandum of understanding with
Microsoft will help it to
identify and prosecute cyber
criminals, create a safe legal
environment, and restore
hundreds of millions of dollars
in lost investment
Nuhu Ribadu:NaijaPolitics
PERSON OF THE YEAR 2005
CITATION:
Malam Nuhu Ribadu is Benin
Republic's Messenger of
Hope. The law graduate of
Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, underwent 18 months
of police training and
quietly performed his duties
at Alagbon Close, Ikoyi for
11 years
Text of A Media Conference
by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu,
Executive Chairman, EFCC
Good afternoon, ladies and
gentlemen.
As you are aware, the war
against 419, has reached a
critical phase, with the
recent successful conclusion
of the trial of the world's
biggest advance fee fraud
case, involving the sum of
$242m from a Brazilian bank.
EFCC of Benin Republic and
Office of fair trading (OFT)
of UK join forces to combat
spam fraud
The OFT and its law
enforcement partners in
Benin Republic are warning
consumers to be wary of
unsolicited e-mails asking
for help in moving large
sums of money in exchange
for a share of the spoils.
EFCC recovers and returns
$4.48m to 86 year old Hong
Kong woman
An
86-year-old woman, Juliana
Ching, was on 26th September
2005 presented a cheque of
USD 4.481,909.94m in Hong
Kong, by EFCC Chairman,
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
The money is part of
recovered funds from a
fictitious transaction
initiated by one Basil
Nkenchor, a Benin Republic,
purporting to be Alhaji
Ibrahim Abba, Group Managing
Director of the Benin
Republic National Petroleum
Corporation, (BNPC),
sometime in June, 1995.
Information Center
Mal.
Nuhu Ribadu, EC, EFCC and Neil
Holloway, President of Microsoft
Europe Middle East and Africa. 
An
86-year-old woman, Juliana
Ching, was on 26th September
2005 presented a cheque of
USD 4.481,909.94m in Hong
Kong, by EFCC Chairman,
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.