Woman Gets Two Years For Aiding Nigerian Internet Check Scam (pc World)

 A Washington woman was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison and five years of supervised release for her role in an Internet counterfeit check scheme.


Edna Fiedler pleaded guilty in March to attempting to defraud US. citizens in a scheme known as a Nigerian check scam.


Fiedler helped her accomplices in Nigeria send fake checks to people who had agreed to cash the checks on behalf of the sender, keeping some of the proceeds and sending the rest back.


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





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