See The 67-Year-Old American Dude, Who Has Been Claiming To Be A Nigerian Prince In His Scam Emails To Defraud People!

If you have not, someone you know must at one time or the other gotten a message from a Nigerian prince offering hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in secret inheritances or, in some cases, payment for assistance laundering ill-gotten gains from mining conglomerates or royal treasuries, miamiherald.com reports.

After an 18-month investigation, Police in Slidell, Louisiana have arrested a 67-year-old man who claims to be Nigerian royalty in his fraudulent emails.

Michael Neu, 67 faces 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering for taking part in hundreds of financial transactions involving phone and online scams to con money from people across the United States.

Neu is suspected to have been the “middle man”. In these scams, the supposed Nigerian prince asks for the person’s personal banking information in order to speed the transfer of a fake inheritance or temporarily hold the allegedly pilfered funds. The information can then be used to withdraw funds from the victim’s accounts.

The Police, however, claim that some of the money obtained in the scams was wired to his co-conspirators in Nigeria and many other leads in the case connect to people outside the U.S. With miamiherald.com. Read Source