The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is working with Microsoft to halt thousands of fraudulent emails in a crackdown on internet crime in Africa's most populous country, an agency spokesman said.



EFCC said its new project "Eagle Claw," expected to become fully operational within six months, is aimed at improving Nigeria's tarnished image as one of the world's top countries for internet crime.



"The EFCC is fine tuning security modalities with Microsoft and upon full deployment, the capacity to take down fraudulent emails will increase to 5,000 monthly," said Farida Waziri, the agency's chairwoman, in a statement.



The agency said it has already shut down 800 scam websites and arrested 18 people.



The project is the latest effort by the government to shrug off its image as an epicenter of corruption, epitomized by "419" email fraudsters named after the article in Nigeria's penal code that deals with advance fee fraud.

Source: http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=2075

Cant wait till we redeem our dented image. . . . . . . What about our leadersWould microsoft help also??

@showbobo
must we always shift all the blames to our leaders, we're talking about internet scammers here.

@Poster

Our leaders are more corrupt and their lackadaisical attitudes are the reasons for all these crime.

Good news to us internet user's bad news to scammers.