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07/13/2009: ""Nigerian" scams by Israelis"
The Tel Aviv police fraud squad arrested on Sunday nine Israelis on suspicion of netting millions of dollars from U.S. pensioners in a so-called Nigerian scam.
Police raided an office in the city, which is suspected to have been the nerve center of the dodgy enterprise. The defendants, all in their 20s and 30s, allegedly phoned American pensioners, told them they had won the lottery and asked them for a fee of several thousand dollars for the transfer of the prize money, which in fact never existed.
[ Considering that Nigerians have an average IQ of 67, this explains a lot. The report doesn't clarify the Nigerian connection however. ]
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097901.html