Nigerian scammers seem to be getting more creative daily, by inventing ingenious ways to defraud unsuspecting victims.
This new development was made known by Urban American site TMZ, who revealed in the report that the scammers are obtaining money from people by offering them non existent jobs with Hollywood producers.
Read the full report below:
How would you like to be the assistant to a MAJOR Hollywood producer?  You can get the job now by going online.  You will receive a job offer and an assignment ... that will ultimately screw you out of thousands of dollars, thanks to Nigerian fraudsters.
Here's the fraud by the numbers ...
-- People who want to break into Hollywood post resumes on various websites.  Some of them get an email from people claiming to be major Hollywood players, looking for an assistant.
-- The "players" -- who actually register Gmail accounts using the names of the actual big shots -- offer jobs to the super-eager applicants from all over the country.