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Topia!: Society: Issues: Fraud: Advance Fee Fraud (41)
Greater Things: Nigerian / 419 Scam - Contact via letter, fax, or email offers millions of dollars in compensation for holding even more millions of dollars in your bank account. Details the experience of a businessman fooled by this scam. Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery - An archive of several hundred scam letters, with date received, names of supposed senders, country where the money is supposed to have originated, and amount. The 419 Coalition - Devoted to fighting the advance money scam, in which victims are offered millions for allowing an even greater sum to be deposited in their bank account, but end up having their accounts drained or being fooled into advancing fictitious taxes, fees or bribes. Nigeria Scam Alert - Details on common scams arising out of Nigeria, usually initiated with a fax or email to the victim, and how the offers that sound too good to be true not only are, but can put you in danger or ruin you financially. 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] International Investigation Services, Nigeria Division - Describing the Nigerian advance fee scam, with a searchable database of known names used by persons participating in the fraud, along with an archive of the letters and fake documents they use, and a bulletin board. Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud - Detailed information on the scheme, centered largely in Nigeria, wherein people are offered a share of millions of dollars to help transfer the money to their bank account. From the U.S. State Department. [PDF format, 1.04M] Advanced Fee Letter Fraud (West African / Nigerian Letters) - Describing how the scheme works, with the victim offered millions in return for allowing the transfer of a much larger sum into his bank account. Accepting reports of new contacts by email, with a toll-free hotline for those who have been directly contacted by Nigerian representatives. 419 Fraud - Information regarding the 419 Nigerian advance payment email fraud. Sample letters and contact information for authorities to whom to complain. Ivory Coast Fraud - About scam letters from the Ivory Coast offering the victim millions of dollars in exchange for helping a refugee transfer money out of the country. The true story of business partners who were fooled. Site includes scans of documents. Nigerian Fee Fraud - A collection of e-mail from various supposed African dignitaries offering millions of dollars to perfect strangers. Also correspondence where the intended victim pretends to fall for the scam. Scam o Rama Presents the Lads from Lagos - Archive of the first 125 attempts at advance fee fraud received by the site authors, a sarcastic FAQ on the scam, law enforcement and news links, and fighting crime with humor. Scam Joke Page - Two co-workers string along 419 (advance fee fraud) scam artists, writing back to them under the name of David Lee Roth, president of a Fortune 1000 financial services company. Useful Information on Advance Fee Fraud a.k.a. 419 - Typical 419 come-on letters, and the statement of the Central Bank of Nigeria warning about this fraudulent scheme. Nigerian Scam - Outlines the basics of this con, mentions variations, gives an example of a typical letter, explains how victims are taken in by this long-running scam. Links to further information. Urgent "Nigeria-419" Scam from South Africa - The sender of the e-mail solicitation claimed to be a South African V.I.P., but it was still the Nigerian 419 scam. E.D. Truitt explains why this con game is dangerous. West African Advanced Fee Fraud - What the West African "419" fraud is, how it works, where victims meet up with the criminals operating this scheme, what residents of the UK should do if they receive a 419 letter. From the Metropolitan Police. Graeme Caselton: Nigerian 419 scam - An explanation of this fraud and why it is dangerous, a running total of how much he has been offered by these spammers, names of the people with millions to give away, excerpts from several 419 e-mails. 419 Advance Fee Fraud Nigerian Scam - An archive of e-mailed solicitations received, how much the web site owner would have supposedly made by now, which scenarios are used (e.g., dead foreigner, or chemically treated money), explanation of how the scam operates, and links. Nigerian Advance Fee or "419" Scam - Profile of one of the longest running scams in the world, and how it works. E-Mail fraud scheme: Despite warnings, Americans continue to lose millions to Nigerian con artists - Those official-sounding letters from someone in Africa are too good to be true. Article includes quotes from victims. Also, a sidebar article on the columnist's correspondence with a Nigerian man who claimed to need help to transfer millions of dollars to Amsterdam. [Detroit Free Press] The 419 Scam/Nigerian Scam - People in academia can be targets of advance fee fraud schemes too. Sample letter, bullet list of common features of a "419" scam, and FAQ. From University of Pennsylvania Computing/Information Security. Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud - Pamphlet from the Australian Institute of Criminology. Press release, abstract, information on ordering the print publication. Advance Fee Business Scams - Advice for Americans traveling abroad to conduct business, from the U.S. State Department. What to look out for, common types of scams aimed at businesses or nonprofits, case studies. Advance Fee Fraud and Banks - Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud from a banker's perspective. In PDF format. E-Mail Scams: How to Recognize Advance Fee Fraud - The "Nigerian Letter" du jour, interspersed with comments. For the small business owner who might think that just possibly an offer out of the blue for a cut of millions of dollars could be truthful. '4-1-9' adds up to financial trouble for scam victims - Military personnel have been targeted by con artists who dangle the lure of receiving millions of dollars for doing hardly anything. Senior officers in particular may be attractive to these scammers. [Army News Service] E-mail Tricks from Africa - A collection of "business proposals" from such alleged VIPs as bank directors, government ministers, chieftains, widows of captains of industry, orphans of dictators. Avoid Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud - The Minnesota Attorney General's office describes how the scheme works, and tells businesses, nonprofits, and individuals what they can do if they receive an offer through the mail to transfer money out of a foreign country. 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 Letter Scam - Detailing how the scam works, wherein victims are contacted by mail, fax, or email with an offer of a share of millions of dollars, to be transferred into their bank account. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference - A humourous look at Nigerian e-mail scams. Scam 419 - An online database of scam 419 letters, explanation of how the scam operates, all the necessary links related to the 419 fraud. Scamjunky - Join Dick Pleasure and his friends as he winds up Nigerian 419 scam artists by e-mail. The Kizombe Correspondence - Transcript of correspondence between the site owner and a perpetrator of the Nigerian email scam. Letters From Ghana - Read how one man played along with the Nigerian email scam. Meet the Nigerian E-Mail Grifters - Wired News reporter Michelle Delio investigates who's behind the Nigerian email scams. ISCS Corporation and Receiver Corporation - Info about an alleged employment and job training scam running in Chicago. Nigerian Scams - Describes some variations of the "Nigerian Scam," scam indicators, typical opening lines, phone numbers mentioned, web sites used by the scammers. Names, company names, and e-mail addresses used by the gangsters. Advance Fee - A Repy Generator (humor) - Allows you to quickly generate a tongue-in-cheek response to those annoying Nigerian scam emails - plug in a few key names and facts, and your response is good to go.
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