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‘Nigerian’ Email Scams (4-1-9 Advance Fee Frauds)

This is a collection of fraudulent email messages from Africa and elsewhere around the world. We are not the source of these messages and we don’t send them! We just collect the ones we receive and document them here for the benefit of people who might be tempted to take up the con artists’ offers. Although messages of this kind have proliferated since the advent of email, this is in fact a very old scam that predates the Internet. (Read more about how advance fee frauds work.)

If you’ve been a victim of an “advance fee fraud” message like those shown below you may wish to contact a lawyer or postal inspector in your state or country.

Please note: Scammers sometimes use the names of real people or legitimate orgainzations in their messages, but that doesn’t mean the person or organization named is in any way dishonest. Anyone can send a message saying “I am the president of XYZ Bank and I need your help to smuggle money out of my country”—and that’s just what the scammers do. The real XYZ Bank doesn’t have anything to do with it, and there is no money to be smuggled out of the country. If you take the bait, the scammers will try to get you to send money to them in order to pay “bribes” or “customs fees” to grease the transaction, and once they have your money in their hands, you will never hear from them again (hence the name advance fee fraud for this type of scam).

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