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Guess which country criticises US air passenger screening
Eye On The World | January 4th 2010
(Nigeria) The country which gave us corrupt UN soldiers, the Nigerian 419 scam and Farouk the underpants bomber has taken umbrage to how the US has upped its security in which to prevent stupid silly wannabe suicide bombers from getting flightside.In read more
Debt Settlement Scam Email
Get Out of Debt | December 28th 2009 by Steve Rhode
Floating around the internet is an email using debt settlement as the hook for the age old Nigerian 419 money scam. Be on the lookout for the following email. If you get one, let me know. From: “MR GOODLUCK JONATHAN” Reply-To: Subject: CONTRACT read more
Top 10 Scams of the decade # 2 - the 411 on 419 and a Nigerian Pr…
Scams Xposed | December 22nd 2009 by Scams Xposed
419 refers to the section of Nigerian law that deals with fraud. Though other countries, organizations, and people have been used to lure victims the Nigerian Prince is certainly the most widespread.The underlying mechanism is the cash advance read more
Repeat Post of Nigerian 419 Scam
David's Musings | November 24th 2009 by David
Since this is a holiday week, and I am quite busy, I thought I would post another one of my personal favorite posts of this blog. This one is especially needed because of people being scammed during this holiday season.------------------------------ read more
People Fall Victim to New Twist on Old E-mail Scam
Email Scams - Fraudulent Email - Don't Be Fooled | November 22nd 2009 by fredg61
Nigerian 419 scammers adapt to changing times.Updated: Saturday, 21 Nov 2009, 5:55 PM PSTPublished : Saturday, 21 Nov 2009, 5:55 PM PSTVideo Reportby:Posted by: Scott CoppersmthmyFOXla.com - If you have an e-mail account, you've gotten them... e-mail read more
#NaNoWriMo Scamming the Nigerian Scammers
Orient Lodge | November 8th 2009 by Aldon Hynes
Today, I received an email from Flora Abed, a twenty year old girl living with her younger brother alone for fear of being found by the people that killed her father. There is $9.5 million dollars in a trunk in Sierra Leone that she needs me to help read more
Tis the Season for Christmas Spam
Allspammedup | November 6th 2009
Halloween has barely passed but spammers are already flooding the net with their Christmas spam campaigns. The spam messages sport urgent-sounding headlines like “Quantities are low!” and advertise knock offs of designer handbags, watches and jew read more
Documentary on rebranding Nigeria
Naijafeed | November 5th 2009 by Chidi
Rebranding Nigeria is a BBC documentary that sheds like on the determined efforts being made by the Nigerian government to create a new positive image of Nigeria. Reporter Henry Bonsu speaks with the Governor of Lagos, Babatunde Fashola and Informat read more
Halloween addition of Scam Victims United
Scam Victims United Blog | October 31st 2009 by Shawn Mosch
Here are some scary facts about fraud and scams . . . From the Internet Crime Complaint Center's annual report http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2008_IC3Report.pdfThe total dollar loss from all referred cases of fraud was $264.6 million with a me read more
How to stop the nigerian scam emails
Techpogo | October 31st 2009
The Nigerian scam, also known as 419 Most of you have received an email from a member of a Nigerian family with wealth. It is a desperate cry for help in getting a very large sum of money out of the country. A common variation is a woman in Africa w read more
New Sting Operation Snags 18 Nigerian Spammers
Allspammedup | October 27th 2009
A new sting operation conducted by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has already nabbed 18 spammers. Dubbed Operation Eagle Claw, it has also led to the shut down of 800 malicious websites. The Commission has partnered with Micro read more
Two Birds - One Stone
GrumpyOldTwat | October 26th 2009 by GrumpyOldTwat
TheEye has always enjoyed 419 Scammer-baiting....replying to some fuckjob Nigerian who is offering you 10% of the stashed fortune of President Ombongo who has just died in a freak accident involving a blindfold and an industrial nail-gun, and stringi read more
Central Bank of Nigeria Scam
Karlonia.com | October 25th 2009 by Karl Erfurt
Our latest spam warning focuses on an email that has been making the rounds over the past few months and has become known as the Central Bank of Nigeria scam. This is really just another version of the old 419 advance fee fraud trick, but it follows read more
Nigerian (419) scam on Craigslist
Off-Base Military Housing & Real Estate Services | October 12th 2009
In past few months some of our members reported that someone from South Africa has posted their property, contact information, description and/or photos on craigslist under rentals and asking for money via western union etc… It sounds crazy but read more
A Look Inside Nigerian Scammers’ World
Scam Free Internet - Don't Get Scammed! | October 9th 2009 by Kevin Park
Here’s a two part video of an Australian investigation (60 Minutes) into the world of Nigerian internet scammers. Nigerian police raid into cyber cafes and arrest 419 suspects. Apparently, Nigerian policemen like to slap their suspects. What read more
The Nigerian Scam after all these years is still working? Why?
Scam Times: Uncovering and Discovering Scams and Shams | October 9th 2009 by Matt Jezorek
This really hits the “something for nothing crowd” hard, however I like many others are here to tell you that no one in Nigeria wants to give you money, there is one thing they do want however. They want your money, this 419 scam has gone read more
An ‘apologies for the scam’ scam
10,000 Birds | October 3rd 2009
I just had to post an email which dropped into my inbox earlier today: the latest variation on the well-known Advance Fee Fraud or ‘Nigerian’ 419 scam email - you know, the one where someone offers to share or send you 20million dollars i read more
Sony Changes Playstation 3 Ad Because The Ad Was Insensitive To N…
Black internet | September 11th 2009 by Munashe Gumbonzvanda
Another interesting story is making the rounds at Sturvs, the Nigerian social bookmarking site. It turns out that Sony made an ad which referenced the famous Nigerian 419 scam. That would be have been funny if they left it there, but they said in th read more
Funny Playstation 3 ad references 419
Naijafeed | August 27th 2009 by Chidi
Pretty funny Playstation 3 ad makes reference to the infamous Nigerian letter 419 scam in the video up top. Related stories: Ben Stiller making 419 film Hacker attempts to help victim of Nigerian 419 scam recover $400,000 Nigerian scammers scam read more
Scams Happen to Smart People Who Do Stupid Things
Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource… | August 25th 2009 by Robert Siciliano
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Most people are too smart to fall for a Nigerian 419 scam. But plenty of smart people fell for Bernie Madoff’s investment scams. Madoff was far more subtle than your average scammer. But in this day and ag read more
Where's Ken? Sailing to Nigeria
CE Conversations | August 20th 2009
We've just wrapped up another Nigerian 419 scammer scam. I say "we" because I was able to make a few modest contributions to Ken's efforts. This is a mighty tale of adventure on the high seas with that old salt, Captain Frank Drake of Golden Hind Mar read more
SCORE!!! U.S. 1 - Nigeria 0
Dear Kimmie... | August 15th 2009 by Dear Kimmie...
As some readers of my blog may be aware, I occasionally respond to Nigerian 419 e-mail scams. The idea is to have some fun and hopefully waste a little of their time, making it time they can’t use scamming. I had a particularly enjoyable exchange w read more
Nigerian national arrested in email fraud case in KANNUR
scamsters.inc | August 11th 2009 by vishal
A Nigerian national was arrested here on Saturday in connection with an investigation into a case of email fraud that cost its victim here huge sum of money.The 34-year old Nigerian, identified as Shaba Abdul Razak, was arrested by the police here at read more
unintentional branding
never get out of the boat | August 10th 2009 by eaon pritchard
The Washington Post reports that even the notorious Nigerian email fraud scammers are feeling the pinch in the credit crunch.One of said scammers, Banjo (24) speaking about Americans is quoted "They don't have money. And the money they don't have, we read more
French/Nigerian/African Spam 419 Scam Email!
Olstars Random Life | July 30th 2009
My good friend Stu has sent me this brilliant 419 scam email that completely slipped through the Google spam filters and ended up in his inbox – probably because its all in french! Hmm, that reminds me – i’ve not actually received o read more
Online Rental Ads Can be Phony
The Scam Guard | July 30th 2009 by Bill Lyman
CONSUMER ALERTOnline Rental Ads Could be Phony 07/29/09 You can’t believe your good fortune—you find a rental home in a nice area through a Craigslist classified ad at an unbelievably low rate. The landlo read more
4 reasons why Nigerian startups are not funded
Nigerian Internet Marketing and Startup tips | July 30th 2009 by aliyubello
1. Traffic does not hold value. No analytics to specify value of each and every website visitor, advertisers are acting blindly.2. The issue of online scam or 419. reminds me of my post where I said this lies on the back of the netpreneurs, It's time read more
419 Scam aka Nigerian Scam Spreading via Flickr
BlogIsEverything.com - Blogging about Everything.com | July 28th 2009 by Matt
Nigerian 419 revisited
CE Conversations | July 20th 2009
Ken has a lot of fun using Nigerian 419 scammers as unwitting collaborators for some impromptu literary efforts. But he's fully aware of the dangers that such spammers represent and takes appropriate precautions.Our last post was about Ken's latest s read more
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