Advance Fee Fraud
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 …
419 Fraud.com
Provides information on 419 Nigerian "advanced fee" fraud.
Advance Fee Fraud
Outlines how common variations of this scam operate, including loans, phony sweepstakes, west African letters. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Advance Fee Fraud and Banks
Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud from a banker's perspective.
Africanscam.co.uk
Information and links on 419 scams; correspondence and photographs from some scambaiting projects.
Anatomy of a 419 scam
Detailed examination of how an American man fell for a fraudulent scheme operating out of the UK. [The Register]
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 t…
Brian Wizard
Offers free pdf-format books about fighting Nigerian 419 letter scams and email fraud.
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 mil…
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…
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 …
Email Scams and Internet Frauds
A collection of advance fee fraud messages from all over the globe.
FW - Investment Consulting
Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and 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 …
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 docume…
ISCS Corporation and Receiver Corporation
Info about an alleged employment and job training scam running in Chicago.
Nation Spotlight: Nigeria
This site discusses the advance fee fraud scheme in Nigeria and touches upon the problems facing that third world country. This page also includes links on issues affecting that n…
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