March 23, 2009
419 Scam Email Included in Madoff Evidence
OK, this is kinda funny... Part of the evidence that US attorneys have been assembling against Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff includes a "419 scam" spam email. NetworkWorld has the story on this and says the "letter" is found on page 36 of a 96-page filing that rounds up letters from victims of Madoff's scam. NWW says the email reads:
"My name is (redacted), but my origin is from Republic of Congo. I have an inherited fund I want to invest in business in your country with a help of a local. ...If you can assist, I am willing to give you 10% of the funds that is $3.5 million..."
As I've mentioned here before, eDiscovery is hard (our whitepaper, Email Archiving: A Proactive Approach to e-Discovery describes the challenge in detail), but this is pretty silly. One wonders what else the attorneys might have missed... Link to NWW's full story below:
E-mail evidence in Madoff case includes another scam - Network World.
