Snap Judgement has posted their “first ever LIVE show! No notes, no do-overs, no safety net–the nation’s best storytellers join host Glynn Washington and rock San Francisco’s Brava Theatre” In an amazing performance, Marc Bamuthi Joseph uses his many gifts to transport an entire live audience from San Francisco to the heart of Africa. National … Continue reading Snap Judgement: Marc Bamuthi Joseph
It reads like a simple project management list — transfer specific amounts of money using three steps to three people in the Ukraine from three different Western Union locations — under the services title of “IT Outsourcing”. Krebs has posted an interesting detail from the case last week where $600,000 was stolen in Brigantine, NJ … Continue reading Money Mule Instructions Revealed
At the RSA 2010 Conference in San Francisco last March I gave a presentation with linguistic anthropologist Harriet Ottenheimer. We explained how linguistic analysis of email can catch fraud and we gave the example of 419 scams, also known as advanced fee fraud (AFF). A pattern of “bad” language stands out. This is a concept … Continue reading Linguistic Email Analysis Catches Fraud
The US Justice Department Press Release details a rare successful conviction of a 419 scammer: Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found OKPAKO MIKE DIAMREYAN, 31, a citizen of Nigeria who sometimes resided in Accra, Ghana, guilty of three counts of … Continue reading Nigerian convicted in US on AFF