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What is the "scam 419"?
The so-called scam 419 is a fraud invented in Nigeria and
performed by thousands of scam artists.
It's called “Advance fee fraud” or “4-1-9” scams, after an
old Nigerian criminal code for theft under false pretenses.
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Millions of people all over the world have received
emails from pseudo-Nigerian authorities saying that they had
large sums of money and that they needed a bank account off-shore
to launder said large sum of money, generally many millions
of dollars. Many people have believed their story and lost lots
of their own money. Some even lost their lives trying to recover
their money. This is tragic for the victims. On another plain,
it's surreal. And weirder than any science fiction plot. |
