419 fraud is also known as advance fee faud has been running since the early 80's unbder Successive Governments of Nigeria. It is defined as a sub-classification of Advance Fee Fraud in which the criminals have a West African connection, it was primarily practised by Nigerian people. There are of course Advanced Fee Fraud criminals all over the world, of many nationalities, operating in many countries, but only Advance Fee Fraud crime commited by West African connection is considered as 419.
419ers operate globally and there are 419 cells in many nations, but Nigeria tends to be the "home office" for them regardless to the physical location of the individual cell. It is a multinational and transnational. In recent years the massive use of email and internet has made the 419 virtually omnipresent.
Some people answers them, and they soon find out that they have to pay some fee in order to get the millions. Then comes the second fee, and the third fee, etc etc. No one has ever received the millions, but many have lost a lot of money, and some have even got killed.
The so-called "419" scam (aka Advance Fee fraud, "Nigeria scam" or "West African" scam) is a type of fraud named after an article of the Nigerian penal code under which it is prosecuted.
Typically, victims of the scam are promised a lottery win (example) or a large sum of money sitting in a bank account or in a deposit box at a security company. Often the storyline involves a family member of a former member of government of an African country, a ministerial official, an orphan or widow of a rich businessman, etc. Here is an example. Variants of the plot involving the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Mauritius, etc. are also known. Some emails include pictures of boxes stuffed with dollar bills, scans of fake passports, bank or government documents and pictures of supposedly the sender.
Though most of these scams use emails sent in English, we also come across emails translated into French, German, Italian or Spanish, as well as English and French letters by postal mail, usually mailed from Spain.
Back in the 1980s the main vehicle for this scam were fax machines.
The victims are promised a fortune for providing a bank account to transfer the money to. Then - if they fall for the scam - they are made to part with thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in "fees" (taxes, insurance, legal fees, etc) before the "partners" finally disappear without trace. The promised fortune is never paid out, because it doesn't actually exist. Here are some typical examples of advance fee demands.
Sometimes fraudulent cashier's checks are issued to the victims, who are asked to wire funds for various charges after the bank says funds are "available" from the check. Check can bounce even after they have "cleared" and then the person who deposited is fully liable.
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Firstly I only wanted to talk about this topic in an informal way to get people aware from this but I realized how serious it could have been with me or with other people who received the same kind of email. The reason I am writing this down is because I really care about this fraude. This type of scam takes advantage of people's sensitiveness and the ilusion of the easy earning money. This type of scam keeps growing and growing, it will soon affect a lot of people's lives, please, pass this message and let the people around you know this.
This is the email i've received I was surprised why did they even bother to do this, so I took a look
This is the document word attached to the email
Like I've said before, I've been receiving a lot of emails saying that I won an internet email lottery, of course I knew it was fake so I deleted it. So nearly twice a week I receive the same kind of email over and over, but always from different email adresses, of course it sounds obviously suspicious. But every time i receive a new mail the content seems to be more complete, like someone that is managing me to check that out. So, I was curious enough to go to see what was hiding behind it. I replied "is there really any prize to claim?" and the following day, today, 13th February, there was an email that had a formulaire asking for information my personal details, official winning informations and funds transfer detail.
If this wasn't serious it would have been funny, but this is bizarre, beyond bizarre
I was filling that when I saw the whole formulaire request
It became so absurd, address, the bank swift code, et cetera
You should never ever send those information by mail and you shouldn't share information about your private details otherwise it can be dangerous.
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