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June 26, 2008

Woman gets two years for Nigerian cheque scam

Total value of scam exceeds $1.7m

Nancy Gohring

A US woman has been sentenced to two years in prison and five years of supervised release for aiding a Nigerian cheque scheme.

Edna Fiedler, from Washington, pleaded guilty in March to attempting to defraud US citizens by sending in fake cheques to people who had agreed to cash the cheques on behalf of the sender, keeping some of the proceeds and sending the rest back.

The Nigerians found people willing to cash the fake cheques via email. They would send their names as well as fake documents that looked like Wal-Mart money orders, Bank of America cheques, US Postal Service cheques and American Express traveller's cheques to Fiedler. They told her how to fill out the cheques and where to send them.

In total, Fiedler sent out $609,000 worth of fake cheques and money orders. When US Secret Service agents investigating the case searched Fiedler's house, they found additional fake cheques worth more than $1.1m that she was preparing to send out.

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Scam said on Tuesday, 01 July 2008

You people are making a hell of mistake. Just because the name "NIGERIA" has no one to fight for her.
What withheld you from titling this headline news "US-Nigerian Cheque Scam" or "Nigerian-US Cheque Scam"? Because anywhere scam is mentioned, Nigeria is mentioned?
Thank goodness, things doesn't usually work that way.
Now who is in jail? Nigerian or American?
Business is business. Sometimes 50/50, sometimes 40/60 or whatever.
Edna had a deal, unfortunately, she couldn't finish her side of the deal properly. Birds of the same feather flies together!
So, you people should remove Nigeria from all these insulting news.
If you know that your bank's name or your company's is being abused, go ahead with the legal suit. And not by damaging another country's image, while you protect your own. Just because our leaders are selfish and care less about the image of their only nation.

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