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  2. 6 Common Phrases Used by Romance Scammers, According to a ...

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    Financial scams, or ploys to get someone’s money by deceiving them, have been around for a while. Often, these scammers prey on older folks, but that’s not always the case.Other populations ...

  3. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.

  4. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    Advance-fee scam. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. 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. [1][2] If a victim makes the ...

  5. Romance Scams: 7 Warning Signs and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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    5 .They Can’t Visit, Call, Video Call or Send Many Pictures. Since most scammers are using a fake profile or data stolen from another person, they can’t visit, video call or send photos easily ...

  6. 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. As of 2013, the 419 Eater forum had over 55,000 ...

  7. Nigeria -- home of e-mail scammers -- tries to improve its image

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    The country that brings you daily e-mail offers from esteemed princes asking for your bank account information so they can send you millions of dollars in exchange for a few thousand of your ...

  8. Obinwanne Okeke - Wikipedia

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    Obinwanne Okeke (born November 9, 1987) also known as Invictus Obi is a Nigerian entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the United States for internet fraud that caused $11M losses to his victims. [1] After initially pleading guilty, on February 16, 2021, Okeke was sentenced to ten years in ...

  9. Area boys - Wikipedia

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    A map of Lagos Metropolitan Area, showing Lagos Island in the south east. Area boys (Yoruba: agbèrò) [1] are loosely organized gangs of street children, teenagers and youths, composed mostly of males, who operate on the streets of major cities in Nigeria, including Lagos, Ibadan, Onitsha, Aba, Umuahia, Akure, Ado-Ekiti and Enugu.