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Social Media Campaign for Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Using Photos of Wrong Kids

The social media campaign to help find the nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, hashtag BringBackOurGirls ( #BringBackOurGirls ) is now under a cloud because the pictures that the campaign is using are not only not of the kidnapped girls, but they aren’t even of Nigerian girls.

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Newest Nigerian Internet Scam: Selling Your House Out from Under You

Nigerian scammers have taken Internet scams to a new high (or low): selling your house, without your knowledge, and having the proceeds go to them. All done remotely, primarily via the Internet, with a little fax and phone thrown in. Of course, now that Nigerian scammers have pulled this off successfully (yes, successfully – just ask Roger Mildenhall about the Perth, Australia house that used to be his), we’re sure that other scammers around the world will be trying it.

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Former Nigerian 419 Scam Artist Tells All in Rare Interview

More than four years ago, we wrote an article about the Nigerian 419 scam and what the scammers think of their victims, in which we concluded that “just in case you weren’t sure about the seriousness of 419 scams …just in case you think that it’s just a few people, and they are going to go away, think again. These scammers are here to stay, they are serious, and their target is…you.” Well, it sure hasn’t gotten any better since then. And here to prove it, from his own lips, a former Nigerian 419 scammer tells all.

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Why Scammers Love Nigeria – the Benefits of Living in Nigeria and the Nigerian 419 Scam

There are a few feactures Of Federal government taxation in Nigeria, along with an overburdened and at times lax penal system, which collude to make Nigeria one of the ideal places to run an advanced-fee scam. In fact, the common name for these scams – 419 scams – comes directly from the Nigerian Penal Code – section 419.

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County Treasurer Loses Over $1 Million in County Funds to Nigerian Email Scam

In case you are still wondering whether people actually fall for the old Nigerian 419 scam – or are wondering just who would fall for the old Nigerian 419 scam – wonder no more, and instead learn from the story of Thomas Katona, of Harrisville, Michigan. That would be Thomas Katona, the county treasurer for Alcona County, Michigan.

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419 Nigerian Scammer Arrested with $4.5 Million

We keep telling you that Nigerian 419 and British Lottery scams work because people actually send these scammers money. In case you didn’t believe us, police in Holland have arrested a Nigerian man over the holidays who is being charged with being involved with a 419 scam, and he had cash amounting to $4,599,577 in his pocket!

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What Nigerian 419 Scammers Think of You

419 scammers are serious about their work, and they think their targets are deserving. Their theme song, “I Go Chop Your Dollars” by Osofia, says it all: “White men, I will eat your dollars.”

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Nigeria Hosts Conference to Deal with 419, Other Nigerian Scams

Nigeria really seems to be doing all the right things to bring under some semblence of control the flood of financial scams which originate within its borders, including the infamous “419 spam scam”. Earlier this month the Nigerian courts sentenced a Nigerian 419 scamstress to 2 1/2 year in jail,…

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Enormous Global 419 Nigerian Scam Bust

In what is being hailed as one of the largest spam&scam busts of the decade, and the biggest 419 bust in history, the FBI and Spanish police have collaborated to arrest three hundred and ten (that’s right, 310) people in Spain, all of whom were connected with an enormous email…

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Mariam Abacha Convicted! Nigerian 419 Scam Fraudstress Jailed

We’ve all seen variations on the theme. “I am Mariam Abacha, widow of the late Nigerian head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha. After the death of my husband who died mysteriously…” They always end with a plea for you to help them get millions of dollars out of Nigeria, in…

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Mugu Marauder: Windows Users Asked to Target Nigerian 419 Scammers – Don’t Do It!

A group calling themselves “Artists Against 419” are asking Windows users to take part in their Mugu Marauder “art” project and take down the scam sites hosted by so-called “419 scammers”. The “Mugu” in “Mugu Marauder” apparently is the term which the 419 scammers themselves use for an intended victim…

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Nigerian 419 Spam: The Video

Sick of spam? Phed up with phishing? Nagged out by the Nigerians? Have we got a treat for you! If you haven’t been over to the Ze Frank site before, or even if you have, and if you’re ready for a little light-hearted spam relief – ready to laugh at…

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419ing the 419er In Which a Nigerian Scam Artist is Scammed

Is there anyone here who hasn’t been at least a little curious at one time or another – what would happen if someone actually responded to one of the Nigerian 419 scam emails – you know, the ones where the spammer contacts you claiming to represent the fortunes of a…

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Scammers Using Confirmation Emails to Get to Targets

Here is a twist on the usual 419 advance-fee scams: the scammer signs up for something such as a newsletter, and then replies to the confirmation email with their scam. We know this, because we were hit with just such a scam from “Steve McCoy”, using the email address stevecoy61@gmail.com.

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Did You Get a Message That Your Friend was Mugged and Needs Money? It’s a Scam!

There is a horrific scam going around that uses just about every trick in the book – and effectively at that – to get you to send the scammers some money. It uses social engineering, urgency, Facebook hacking, and email hacking, and looks so genuine that we have no doubt that many have fallen for it. It comes from your friend’s actual account, and starts out by saying “This message may be coming to you as a surprise..” It then goes on to say that “we were mugged” and that the muggers stole “all our cash, credit cards and cellphone but thank God we still have our lives”, and then begs “I need you to help me out with a loan to settle our bills here…” It sounds so real – and after all it comes right from your friend’s account – how can you refuse? But refuse you must, because it is a scam.