
A quartet of suspected email scammers--three of them Nigerian citizens--could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. A grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., on charged Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi, Anthony Friday Ehis, Kesandu Egwuonwu and another unnamed defendant with one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. Anisiobi also faces one count of bank fraud. According to the Justice Department's charges, New York-based victims of the email scams <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6053370.html?tag=zdnn.alert">lost more than $1.2 million</A> to the fraudsters.