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Also known as the Africa scam or Nigeria scam, the
419 scam is named after the penal code that it is prosecuted
under in Nigeria Africa. The scam is almost always distributed
through e-mail or
faxes and tell the recipient that
they've won some type of lottery or they know or are in contact
with a businessman, official, orphan, president, rich deceased
person, widow, etc. who needs help withdrawing or gaining access
to money. Often this is a large some of money, e.g. several
hundred thousand or several million dollars that you're promised
in part or whole. The scams always involve one or more of the
below tactics.
- You must make some type of small deposit to help with
the withdraw the large sum of money from the account.
- The money needs to be transferred to a different
account, which requires you hand over some type of bank or
account information.
- You must cash a check or cheque that is sent to you.
- The deal must be done in secret, can't tell anyone.
As always if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. If
you receive this type of scam we suggest you simply delete the
e-mail.
Also see: Scam,
Security definitions,
Phishing
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