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<blockquote data-quote="coolskierguy" data-source="post: 601931" data-attributes="member: 49346"><p><strong>Nigeria scam defined</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>haha no, but many of the scams of this nature do/did come from Nigeria, read about it here: <a href="http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/" target="_blank">http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/</a></p><p></p><p>and on snopes here: <a href="http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp</a></p><p></p><p>"A Five Billion US$ (as of 1996, much more now) worldwide Scam which has run since the early 1980's under Successive Governments of Nigeria. It is also referred to as "Advance Fee Fraud", "419 Fraud" (Four-One-Nine) after a formerly relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria, and "The Nigerian Connection" (mostly in Europe). However, it is usually called plain old "419" even by the Nigerians themselves. In brief, 419 is a sub-classification of Advance Fee Fraud crime in which the perpetrators are West Africans, primarily Nigerians, operating globally from Nigeria and elsewhere."</p><p></p><p>I first saw this scam in the mid-90s, I thought it had kinda dried up by now but last year I overheard someone talking about their check-on-the-way-from-Nigeria in the elevator in the building I lived and kindly informed them of the scam...I guess its still running strong!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coolskierguy, post: 601931, member: 49346"] [b]Nigeria scam defined[/b] haha no, but many of the scams of this nature do/did come from Nigeria, read about it here: [url]http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/[/url] and on snopes here: [url]http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp[/url] "A Five Billion US$ (as of 1996, much more now) worldwide Scam which has run since the early 1980's under Successive Governments of Nigeria. It is also referred to as "Advance Fee Fraud", "419 Fraud" (Four-One-Nine) after a formerly relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria, and "The Nigerian Connection" (mostly in Europe). However, it is usually called plain old "419" even by the Nigerians themselves. In brief, 419 is a sub-classification of Advance Fee Fraud crime in which the perpetrators are West Africans, primarily Nigerians, operating globally from Nigeria and elsewhere." I first saw this scam in the mid-90s, I thought it had kinda dried up by now but last year I overheard someone talking about their check-on-the-way-from-Nigeria in the elevator in the building I lived and kindly informed them of the scam...I guess its still running strong! [/QUOTE]
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