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  • White ‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana

    Following an 18-month investigation, a man said to have served as the go-between for an international team of scammers running an elaborate “Nigerian prince” email scheme has been arrested in Slidell, La. Michael Neu, 67—who, as WGNO-TV puts it, “is neither Nigerian nor a prince”—was charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.…