No More Insufficient Funds

Nigeria is not alone in cybercrime. But among a considerable number of Nigerians, cybercrime or Yahoo Yahoo exists at the intersection of crime and means of livelihood; wrong but necessary. On June 29, 2009, the former Nasdaq chairman and Wall Street giant, Bernard Madoff, was sentenced to 150 years in an American medium-security prison for running what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Using the wealth management arm of his company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Secu

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