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Advance Fee Fraud
Outlines how common variations of this scam operate, including loans, phony sweepstakes, west African letters. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/

Public Awareness Advisory Regarding "4-1-9" or "Advance Fee Fraud" Schemes
U.S. Secret Service explains this type of fraud, often perpetrated by Nigerian nationals. The scheme involves an offer to allow the victim to share in millions of dollars in return for assisting with its transfer out of the country.
www.treas.gov/

Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery
An archive of several hundred scam letters, with date received, names of supposed senders, country where the money is supposed to have originated, and amount.
www.potifos.com/

419 Fraud.com
Provides information on 419 Nigerian "advanced fee" fraud.
www.419fraud.com/

Nigerian Fee Fraud
A collection of e-mail from various supposed African dignitaries offering millions of dollars to perfect strangers. Also correspondence where the intended victim pretends to fall for the scam.
www.haxial.com/

Useful Information on Advance Fee Fraud a.k.a. 419
Typical 419 come-on letters, and the statement of the Central Bank of Nigeria warning about this fraudulent scheme.
nopa.net/

West African Advanced Fee Fraud
What the West African "419" fraud is, how it works, where victims meet up with the criminals operating this scheme, what residents of the UK should do if they receive a 419 letter. From the Metropolitan Police.
www.met.police.uk/

419 Advance Fee Fraud Nigerian Scam
An archive of e-mailed solicitations received, how much the web site owner would have supposedly made by now, which scenarios are used (e.g., dead foreigner, or chemically treated money), explanation of how the scam operates, and links.
www.popsubculture.com/

E-Mail fraud scheme: Despite warnings, Americans continue to lose millions to Nigerian con artists
Those official-sounding letters from someone in Africa are too good to be true. Article includes quotes from victims. Also, a sidebar article on the columnist's correspondence with a Nigerian man who claimed to need help to transfer millions of dollars to Amsterdam. [Detroit Free Press]
www.freep.com/

Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
Pamphlet from the Australian Institute of Criminology. Press release, abstract, information on ordering the print publication.
www.aic.gov.au/