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  2. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.

  3. The Classic Cons Behind These Digital-Age Scams - AOL

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    The scam still takes in millions of dollars, with a ring of Nigerian con artists taking victims for at least $6 million between 2014 and 2018, according to a recent indictment. Man's hands tightly ...

  4. Nigerian Prince scam - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 29 November 2015, at 10:46 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. How an 836-pound 'cursed' emerald traveled the Americas ... - AOL

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    The year was 2014, the heyday of the Nigerian prince email scam, and the up-and-coming attorney was no fool. “I immediately thought it was just completely fake, a total hoax,” he said. “I ...

  6. “Can You Hear Me?” And 4 Other Phone Call Scams - AOL

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    How To Get Free Money: 15 Proven Ways In fact, if we’ve recently picked up a call from a random number, only to hear someone on the other line ask, “Can you hear me?”, we might have stepped ...

  7. Nigerian prince - Wikipedia

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    Nigerian traditional rulers or, specifically, the junior dynasts of their royal houses in the wider Nigerian chieftaincy system; a stereotypical part of an advance-fee scam; Nigerian Prince, a 2018 Nigerian-American film

  8. Nigerian Prince (film) - Wikipedia

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    Nigerian Prince is a 2018 Nigerian-American bilingual suspense thriller drama film written and directed by New York based Nigerian-American Faraday Okoro in his feature film directorial debut. [1] The film is based on a stock term referring to a type of advance-fee scam . [ 2 ]

  9. Scammers are raking in billions by targeting victims where ...

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    Scammers made off with about $7.4 billion in stolen money last year from the callers they duped, and mobile phones are becoming more frequent targets.