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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.
http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/nigeria-fraud.html 419 Advance Fee Fraud Nigerian Scam Moneysmartz Profile

419 Fraud.com - Provides information on 419 Nigerian 'advanced fee' fraud.
http://www.419fraud.com/ 419 Fraud.com Moneysmartz Profile

419Legal - Advance Free Fraud forums, information and links to fraudulent sites.
http://www.419legal.org 419Legal Moneysmartz Profile

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 through bandwidth siphoning.
http://aa419.org/ Artists Against 419 Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://www.abcsmallbiz.com/bizbasics/misc/nigerian_letter.html E-Mail Scams: How to Recognize Advance Fee Fraud Moneysmartz Profile

FW - Investment Consulting - Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and other fraudulent schemes.
http://noriainternational.com/investment-consulting/ FW - Investment Consulting Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://www.g6csy.net/spam/nigerian.html Graeme Caselton: Nigerian 419 scam Moneysmartz Profile

ISCS Corporation and Receiver Corporation - Info about an alleged employment and job training scam running in Chicago.
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/chicagotruth ISCS Corporation and Receiver Corporation Moneysmartz Profile

Meet the Nigerian E-Mail Grifters - Reporter Michelle Delio investigates who's behind the Nigerian email scams. [Wired News] (July 17, 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53818,00.html Meet the Nigerian E-Mail Grifters Moneysmartz Profile

Nigerian Advance Fee or "419" Scam - Profile of one of the longest running scams in the world, and how it works.
http://www.justiceonline.org/consum/nigerian.html Nigerian Advance Fee or "419" Scam Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://www.haxial.com/fraud/nigerianfee.html Nigerian Fee Fraud Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://www.potifos.com/fraud/ Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery Moneysmartz Profile

Nigerian Money Scams - Several collected sets of correspondence between Nigerian conmen and supposedly naive recipients of their extraordinary offers.
http://sweetchillisauce.com/nigeria.html Nigerian Money Scams Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://www.nigerianscams.org/ Nigerian Scams Moneysmartz Profile

Scam 419 - An online database of scam 419 letters, explanation of how the scam operates, all the necessary links related to the 419 fraud.
http://www.scam419.com/ Scam 419 Moneysmartz Profile

Slate - The Nigerian Nightmare - Who's sending you all those scam e-mails? - Examines the 419 fraud scam as well as its history, going back several decades.
http://www.slate.com/id/2072851/ Slate - The Nigerian Nightmare - Who's sending you all those scam e-mails? Moneysmartz Profile

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 bri
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ The 419 Coalition Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://www.upenn.edu/computing/security/advisories/419scam.html The 419 Scam/Nigerian Scam Moneysmartz Profile

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.
http://nopa.net/Useful_Information/419/ Useful Information on Advance Fee Fraud a.k.a. 419 Moneysmartz Profile

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