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On the Web
- Email Scams and Internet Frauds - A collection of advance fee fraud messages from all over the globe.
- Advance Fee Fraud - Outlines how common variations of this scam operate, including loans, phony sweepstakes, west African letters. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- West African Advanced Fee Fraud - What the West African "419" fraud is, how it works, where victims meet up with the criminals operating this scheme, what residents of the UK should do if they receive a 419 letter. From the Metropolitan Police.
- 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.
- Advance Fee Fraud and Banks - Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud from a banker's perspective.
- 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.
- FW - Investment Consulting - Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and other fraudulent schemes.
- Nigeria E-Mail Scam aka 419 Scam aka Advance Fee Fraud - Description of the scam's mechanics, history, senders' aliases, ways to easily identify the scam email, and related links.
- Nation Spotlight: Nigeria - This site discusses the advance fee fraud scheme in Nigeria and touches upon the problems facing that third world country. This page also includes links on issues affecting that nation.
- University of Nigeria - Spoof higher education institution with specialist courses in advanced fee fraud.
Wikipedia Articles
- Advance fee fraud - An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (or 419 fraud) and "The Spanish Prisoner.
- Miracle Cars scam - The Miracle Cars scam was an advance fee fraud that ran from 1997 to 2002. It was one of the largest advance fee frauds in world history, as well as the largest automobile fraud in American history.
- Fred Ajudua - Fred Ajudua, is a Nigerian citizen currently standing trial for alleged involvement in advance fee fraud "419" charges. These charges relate to collecting money under false pretences from Nelson Allen, a Canadian who allegedly lost $285,000 to Ajudua and is the only foreigner to have given mail-fraud evidence in a Nigerian court of law.
- Employment scams - Employment scams, also know as job scams, are a form of advance fee fraud scamming where certain unscrupulous persons posing as recruiters and/or employers offer attractive employment opportunities which require the job seeker to pay them money in advance, usually under the guise of work visas, travel expenses, and out-of-pocket expenses.
- Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is a Nigerian law enforcement agency that investigates financial crimes such as advance fee fraud (419 fraud) and money laundering.