Advance Fee Fraud

The experience of a businessman fooled by this scam. Contact is initiated via letter, fax, or email offers of millions of dollars in compensation for holding even more millions of dollars in your bank account.

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• Anatomy of a 419 scam - Detailed examination of how an American man fell for a fraudulent scheme operating out of the UK. [The Register]
• Nigerian Scam - Outlines the basics of this con, mentions variations, fraud gives an issues example of a typical letter, explains fraud how victims are taken issues in by this long-running fraud scam. Links to further information.
• Email Scams and Internet Frauds - A collection of advance fee fraud messages from advance fee fraud all over the globe.
• West African Advanced Fee Fraud - What the West African "419" fraud is, how it works, advance fee fraud where victims meet up with the criminals operating this scheme, advance fee fraud what residents of the UK should do if they receive advance fee fraud a 419 letter. From the Metropolitan Police.
• FW - Investment Consulting - Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and advance fee fraud other fraudulent schemes.
• Greater Things: Nigerian / 419 Scam - The experience of a businessman fooled by this scam. Contact is initiated via letter, fax, or email offers of millions of dollars in compensation for holding even more millions of dollars in your bank account.
• Nigerian Advanced Fee Fraud - The Minnesota Attorney General\\'s office describes how the advance fee fraud scheme works, and tells businesses, nonprofits, and individuals advance fee fraud what they can do if they receive an advance fee fraud offer through the mail to transfer money out advance fee fraud of a foreign country.
• The 419 Coalition - Devoted to fighting the advance money scam, in issues which victims issues are offered millions for allowing an issues even greater sum to issues be deposited in their issues bank account, but end up having issues their accounts issues drained or being fooled into advancing fictitious taxes, issues issues fees or bri
• The "419" or "Nigerian" Scam - People in academia can be targets of advance fraud fee fraud advance fee fraud schemes too. Sample letter, bullet list fraud of common features of advance fee fraud a "419" scam, and fraud FAQ. From University of Pennsylvania advance fee fraud Computing/Information Security.
• Artists Against 419 - Provides information on fake bank sites and how to distinguish them from legitimate ones, along with announcements of monthly flash mob events aiming to shut down fake bank sites through bandwidth siphoning.
• I crave your distinguished indulgence (and all your cash) - The author describes the mass of offers he has received from African nations, offering him a share of millions, with a description of how the scam works. [Salon]
• Crackdown on £8.4m African sting - The idea of the African elite offering untold riches to strangers via e-mail or fax may seem absurd, but the National Criminal Intelligence Service says that victims are losing millions of pounds. [Scotland on Sunday]
• Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery - An archive of several hundred scam letters, with issues date received, issues names of supposed senders, country where issues the money is supposed issues to have originated, and issues amount.
• Brian Wizard - Offers free pdf-format books about fighting Nigerian 419 advance fee fraud fraud letter scams and email fraud.
• The "Nigerian" Scam: Costly Compassion - Federal Trade Commission alert on those polite letters from strangers advance fee fraud in trouble, which promise a large financial reward for discreetly advance fee fraud helping them.
• The Sani Abacha Fraud - The course of e-mail correspondence that began with advance fee fraud a business offer from the widow of a advance fee fraud Nigerian general.
• Nigeria E-Mail Scam aka 419 Scam aka Advance Fee Fraud - Description of the scam\\'s mechanics, history, senders\\' aliases, ways to easily identify the scam email, and related links.
• Advance Fee Fraud and Banks - Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud fraud from advance fee fraud a banker's perspective.[PDF]
• 419 Legal - Forums on potential online scams, information and links to fraudulent sites.
• International Investigation Services, Nigeria Division - Describing the Nigerian advance fee scam, with a searchable database fraud of known names used by persons participating in the fraud, fraud along with an archive of the letters and fake documents fraud they use, and a bulletin board.
• Africanscam.co.uk - Information and links on 419 scams; correspondence and fraud photographs from some scambaiting projects.
• 419 Advance Fee Fraud Nigerian Scam - An archive of e-mailed solicitations received, how much the web advance fee fraud site owner would have supposedly made by now, which scenarios advance fee fraud are used (e.g., dead foreigner, or chemically treated money), explanation advance fee fraud of how the scam operates, and links.
• The Nigerian Nightmare - Examines the 419 scam as well as its issues history, going back several decades. [Slate]
• ISCS Corporation and Receiver Corporation - Info about an alleged employment and job training advance fee fraud scam running in Chicago.
• Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud - Pamphlet from the Australian Institute of Criminology. Press fraud release, abstract, information on ordering the print publication.

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