Before He Spammed You, This Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox

More than likely they didn’t pay the postage. They probably posted a job on Craigslist that states $10k a week to send these letters and conned someone to to using their personal funds to send these out with a promise of payment at the end of the week.

The indictment against a ton of Nigerians both living in California and in Nigeria is the most interest part of this:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6318484-BEC-Iro-Igbok...

They were doing tons of different kinds of fraud, not just the 419 scam but also hijacking real estate agents email accounts to get people to deposit down payments in fraudulent accounts as well as romance scams on dating sites.

It's amazing there were so many co-defendants involved in this one operation 'ring'.

Committing fraud through the postal system opens up the scammer to an entire new class of federal investigators.

https://www.uspis.gov/