SaharaReporters Beats Attack By "James Ibori" On Our Website

James Ibori
By Saharareporters, New York

Feb. 2 (GIN) – The email scam that begins “I’m in jail and I need your help” put the SaharaReporters website out of commission for almost 24 hours yesterday as a new virtual server we recently rented went offline.  Server4All took down our server without warning, upon concluding that we were blacklisted in connection with the email scam..

The scam email was purportedly written by one-time governor “James Ibori”.
 
“It was a classic Nigerian Oil scam in which the person claims to be ‘JAMES IBORI ex-governor of DELTA STATE oil city,’" observed SaharaReporters publisher Sowore Omoyele. “The scammer notes the custodial status of Mr. Ibori (he is in preventative detention in a UK Jail), and promises lots of cash to the person who can help him out. In an effort to boost his credibility, the scammer included a link to a Sahara Reporters article about the real James Ibori.
 
"And that, friends, was enough to have one of the most prominent independent African news organization taken offline."
 
"Ironically, this action could have been taken by any of the corrupt ideologues hell-bent on shutting down our free speech website through any mean necessary.  We are concerned, however, that our hosting provider precipitously took our site offline upon receiving a complaint before asking questions. "
 
Ibori, a leading Governor in the Niger Delta who bankrolled the election of Umaru Yar'Adua, inflated contracts for state services, operated fraudulent companies to launder the money in a British tax haven and bought property in London, has been in custody since being extradited from Dubai in April. The wife, mistress and lawyer of the former lynchpin of the People's Democratic Party were convicted of money laundering and fraud in two previous, linked, trials.
 
In December, a court denied Ibori’s appeal to have the case tossed out and also dismissed the claim that a British court lacks jurisdiction to try the accused.
 
The trial will resume on February 13, 2012, on the eve of Valentine’s Day; Mr. Ibori’s wife, Theresa Nkoyo, is already serving five years in jail.

“SaharaReporters should feel singled out. They exist to illuminate news from Africa. They were taken offline because a series of individuals don't know the difference between a prominent independent African news service and a criminal scammer. To most of the Internet, Nigeria and email scams are synonymous. That has to change” says Jamie McClelland of Mayfirst/People Link, a New York-based techie group that supports independent media outfits including Saharareporters.

Last month Google Adsense took down its ads from SaharaReporters webpages as we refused to remove images of police brutality meted out to #Occupy protesters in Nigeria.

Scam Email Below:

From bar-ainabenjamin@libero.it Wed Feb  1 07:21:42 2012
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From: "Barrister Benjamin Aina"<bar-ainabenjamin@libero.it>
Subject: Requestingfor Your Urgent Assistance
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:55:57 +0100
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From: Barrister Benjamin Aina
Old Bai­ley Cham­bers
15 Old Bai­ley
London EC4M 7EF

Please see the below message, the ex-governor of Delta State currently in detained in United-Kingdom requested me to forward it to you

Regards,
Bar. Benjamin Aina

Attn: Sir,

My name is JAMES IBORI ex-governor of DELTA STATE oil city; I wish to contact you for this assistance. I was arrested in Dubai now detained in United Kingdom due to some charges/allegation leveled against me by the government of my country. Meanwhile it's my pleasure to inform you that I have huge amount of fund (US$60,000,000.00) deposited with Security Company in ISTANBUL-TURKEY  and I will like to move this fund into foreign account before it’s too late because that is the only thing I have left. Please I am not allowed to make much communication except this little time i have to contact you.
 
In addition, I will like you to stand as my Partner/Next of Kin and receive this fund from the Security Company in Brazil on my behalf. I will offer you 30% of the (US$60.M), 10% for Charity Homes and 10% will be set aside for any expenses that may occur on the process of you receiving the fund. Note that as soon as I hear from you through my lawyer (Barrister Benjamin Aina), I will instruct him to forward the Security Company information across to you so that they can direct you on how to receive the fund because I am not allowed making much communication. Please, please and please do not disclose this matter to third party for security reason. On your side its 100% risk free, there is no danger attach to it when you are receiving the fund. I am very honest man and I really believe that you are also honest person who will not cheat on me when the fund gets to you.
 
But if you are not capable and trust worthy enough to handle this fund on my behalf till I finish with the little problem I found myself into with United Kingdom government, please do not contact me. You can see the full details on the BBC news and other web-links below. I came in contact with your email address through journal list, like I said I am an honest man and I would not want you to use my present situation as avenue to receive the fund and abscond. You can contact me through my lawyer, I believe you know "for security reasons" it is not wise to discuss such issue through phone or any other electronic communication since I am still in detention so advice all communication regarding this issue should be send to me through my lawyer private email address: barrister.benjaminaina@yahoo.cn. he does visit me in prison often. Barrister Benjamin Aina is my defense team leader, he is reliable and honest.
 

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/uk-money-laundering-trial-james-ibo...

http://www.naijafeed.com/naijafeed/2011/9/21/former-delta-governor-james...

http://nationalmirroronline.net/news/21052.html
 
Thank you very much for your understanding I will be looking forward to hear from you soon.

 James Ibori
Ex-Governor Delta State Oil City
 

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google is becoming a criminal company

i wld like to make comment about google, for ggogle to remove your adsense...it shows that google is backing government, no wonder they are fighting with a lot of company globally including jeopadise the good work of skywook wireless solution. which apple tested and work perfect for iPad,iPhone products. But wanted to destroy the company for the good work....if google continue this way, they will lose their credibility.

Nigerians are trying to

Nigerians are trying to corrupt the British judicial system. They are ignorant that corruption comes from Britain, they only know where to draw the line. Since the wife is in jail for the same offence and Ibori has been in the jail before he will likely spend the rest of his life there. The after math of his action is what bought fuel surcharge to million of poor nigerians today.

PDP want you guys gone

This is why they post so many idiotic comments and hijack all stories to put off your genuine readers.

these guyz only copy n paste

these guyz only copy n paste a stale news
on ibori published by SHR on d web which
Can happen to CNN sef and has nothing to do with IT security

price of pms in Taraba State

pls help us call on the office concern to come to our aid in Jalingo Taraba State capital & its environ to come and enforce the on the price of pms (petrol) to #97 per litre because the independent marketers are selling a litre of petrol at between #120 & 130 up till now pls help us make a shout out they are cheating us here

james ibori

Fantastic sattire!

419 Kingpin

This e-mail could have been written by that rabid idiot Deri, who purports to be the spokesman for the Niger Delta- a group of far too many disparate ethnic nationalities, with their individual identities, who will be offended that any particular tyrant will pretend to represent their interests. Everywhere you go there is this idiot sonofabitch Deri spewing garbage. He always appears as a tiny gnat on my computer screen and I am fixing to swat the s -it out of his putrid arse. This punk sure as hell is irritating and his time is up.I got your number, pal.

The idiot who wrote the fake

The idiot who wrote the fake "scam" (to hurt SR) could not even write tolerably good english. Why would anyone with a grain of commonsense left in her head associate SR with a felony like this?

Obviously a 419 letter

Obviously a 419 letter

If this email was really sent

If this email was really sent to SR, and if this is the REAL reason the site was off the web for 24 hours then I say you need to take very tight measures regarding your website, unless you are throwing in the towel in the bloody war for truth, justice and transparency in Nigerian governance.

That said, I think your web host really needs another looking into? Would an authentic James Ibori actually expect to hoodwink SR with the email evidenced above?

The Igbos would say "oso ndu agwu ike" - literal translation? The race for one's life brooks no tiredness.

Be forewarned SR.

You have exposed your ignornace

SR has expose the low level of their IT security consultants. Please a scam could come from any1 who reads most compelling news. Please IP address could be spoofed with anonymous apps. So do not rely on the port and IP address you have on the header. NO ONE is truly secure, but how stressful to brake in is what counts. contact me if you need help.
Udy

419 and cuop plotters

419 and coup plotters.

Sowore Omoyele

So na you go disgrace minister like that ehn? Hahaha

But seriously, 21 gboza for you!

SR What Happened?

U people complained that GEJ is not able to secure Nigeria a country, while ur own dormain is sick and porous. To say the least am very disappointed. Remove the log from ur eyes so that u can help build this country for good.

Mischievous e-mail.

The mischievous e-mail might have come from the Federal Government or its agents because SR have been exposing government secrets and corruption. Please, SR, do everything technologically possible to prevent your site from being successfully attacked. SR, you are the only means of expressing ourselves freely, so, we are behind you.

Great Ibori,Greatooooo!!!!!!

Olorugun Ibori,Nothing will do you,even in your trouble,you are still great.Even you are not around,your shadow is hunting them.They did not see those that still #40billions in Nigeria? yet they are not guilty,bcos their kinsmen are behind him.Those that benefited from you are now the people prosecuting you,wonder will never end.The good work you have done in Delta State are still there for all good minded people to see.So my Chief be steadfast,for God will see through,nothing last forever,the down fall of Ibori is not the end of his life.You will bounce back again and live stronger.

Leave the thief out of this...

Although I am not an Ibori supporter, he is certainly resting where he belongs to. However, this is simply a silly write up from Mr. Sowore/Sahara Reporters. This email scam is a classical scam email circulating on the web. Anybody that thinks Ibori would do or have somebody do this in order to put down SR server must be that classical dullard!

Google Bar. Benjamin Aina and email address barrister.benjaminaina@yahoo.cn on the scam mail and figure the rest your self.

Be Wise..

Although I am not an Ibori supporter, he is certainly resting where he belongs to. However, this is simply a silly write up from Mr. Sowore/Sahara Reporters. This email scam is a classical scam email circulating on the web. Anybody that thinks Ibori would do or have somebody do this in order to put down SR server must be that classical dullard!

Google Bar. Benjamin Aina and email address barrister.benjaminaina@yahoo.cn on the scam mail and figure the rest your self.

PLEASE AND PLEASE LIVE SR ALONE!!!!

Pls James continue to serve your jail term in UK because the cells their are better than the ones in Nigeria.Just serve your term their afterall your money is still waiting for you MR GOVERNOR.

As for yor wife five years are not too much FIRSTLADY how i wise you are in a Nigerian cell.

PLEASE LEAVE SAHARA REPORTERS ALONE, SO THAT WE THE POOR AND LESS PREVILAGE WILL CONTINOUE TO SEE AND HEAR THE UNPOLISHED NEWS.

James Ibori

That is one of the evils these men who have looted Nigeria dry can achieve because of the limitless cash at their disposal.  Nigeria is in real trouble but thank God for SR's dedication.  It's scary what the situation in Nigeria would have been by now if not for the doggedness of this site that helped put Ibori where he is and helped unearth the scum of corruption that Nigeria has become.  emotanafricana.com

SR journalism is a warfare

Journalism is a warfare so SR should equip itself with strong armaments both technologically & intellectually.People don't like the truth been told,in telling the truth you must buy plenty enemies.

JAMES IBORI IS A BLOODY THIEF WHO MILKED DELTA STATE DRY

James Onanefe Ibori was the man who kept delta state in the mess it found itself today, stealing our money with reckless impunity.He left delta state in more that N150billion debt.That i why his cousin, Governor Uduaghan can not perform till today resulting from trying to pay the debt.He siphoned billions of dollars and pounds through project e-delta and other means, spending and using public funds to do father christmas.He will rot in jail.He fled the country through the sea and ran to cameroun, to Dubai thinking he will run away from the long arm of the law.Rot in jail ibori.fool!vanity upon vanity.

God help us

May God help us

sahara open yaash

once ur security is beaten u give up and negociate. sahara is porous

sahara open yaach

how can a dependable site like sahara shd be porous? everytin? once ur security is beaten u give up and negosiate.

leave Ibori alone with these fake stories he has suffered enough

Bankole is a free man. Tinubu a free man also--why not allow ibori to face trial in nigeria-at least orji kalu and andy uba are walking the streets of nigeria free men--james ibori has suffered enough in the hands of Lamorde and ribadu-next time he will know how to relate with the fulanis he attempted to serve--at the expense of his people in the niger delta. He helped abacha and buhari to kill his own people in a senseless war.

looters at cooling off in sanko

James Ibori,ITT.Rot in jail.

not "classic", but rather, "neoclassical"

The "Ibori" email is not "real" (or "classic") 419, rather it reads like a concoction expressly intended to trip the server's blocking mechanisms, so let's better call it "neoclassical"!

Which "real" 419 will cite SR as a character reference? Which "real" scammer will openly speak of "the little problem I found myself into [sic] with United Kingdom government"? That "little" phrase in particular is a taunt which no "real" yahooboy would risk. ISPs have been traumatized by a generation of spamming, phishing and scamming, becoming hypersensitive to legal risk, which makes it a child's play for any cabalistic hacker to sow mischief of this kind. Henceforth, the new national motto shall be: "9ja, a country where even fraud can be fake!"

crap governor

Inexcellency

LOL

SR: Why did you click on that link

Hope its not because of the Cash involve OOoooo just asking anyway

thank God you are back

Mean no offense please

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