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Advance fee fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2468 words) |
 | Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code [1] that it violates, is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from investors living in relatively richer countries in Europe, Australia, or North America. |
| While no direct monetary benefit is presented to the victim, these scams are perpetrated by the same scammers that also employ more traditional advance fee fraud and the scams follow roughly the same modus operandi as the previously mentioned scams. |
| 419 guestbook spam is a type of spam in which Nigerian 419 scammers attempt to mark their "guestbook turf." The "lads", as the scammers are sometimes referred to, apparently depend in large part upon guestbook entries to harvest usable email addresses. |
| "419" becoming a matter of life and death (2234 words) |
| I really hate to be a wet blanket, but "419" schemes originating from and inside our country are becoming a matter of life and death! |
| I am aware that there are many Nigerians who believe that the traditional "419" - where a crook meets a potential (usually White and Western) crook serves that potential crook right. |
| Every other week at work, we receive faxes from 419 people who claim to be princes, priests, ministers, etc in Nigeria. |
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