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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. 419eater.com - Wikipedia

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   419eater.com is a scam baiting website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from "419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The website founder, Michael Berry, goes by the alias Shiver Metimbers.

4. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - Wikipedia

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   The EFCC was established in 2003, partially in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), [2] which named Nigeria as one of 23 countries non-cooperative in the international community's efforts to fight money laundering. [1] The agency has its head office in Abuja, Nigeria. The EFCC was also set up to ...

5. Almost 800 arrested over Nigerian crypto-romance scam - AOL

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   Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it had arrested 792 suspects in a raid on a building believed to be a hub for fraudsters who lured victims with offers of romance, then pressed them to hand over ...

6. Legal Briefing: Major Law Firm Abetted 'Nigerian' Scam - AOL

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   A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Major Law Firm Helps "Nigerian" Scam Defraud Americans Two Baker Hostetler partners helped defraud nine investors of over $1 million in a ...

7. Scam busters turn the tables on those running the Nigerian scam

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8. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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   She was sentenced to two years imprisonment and five years of supervised release or probation in an Internet $1 million "Nigerian check scam". She conspired to commit bank, wire and mail fraud against US citizens, specifically using Internet by having an accomplice ship counterfeit checks and money orders to her from Lagos, Nigeria in November ...

9. Scattered Canary - Wikipedia

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   Scattered Canary is a Nigerian fraud ring. During the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, the group used business email compromise and, according to the United States Secret Service, "hundreds if not thousands" of money mules to defraud U.S. state unemployment agencies. [1]