| 1. | 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 |
| 2. | Greater Things: Nigerian / 419 Scam | | | Contact via letter, fax, or email offers millions of dollars in compensation for holding even more millions of dollars in your bank account. Details the experience of a businessman fooled by this scam.
www.greaterthings.com |
| 3. | 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 |
| 4. | The 419 Coalition | | | Devoted to fighting the advance money scam, in which victims are offered millions for allowing an even greater sum to be deposited in their bank account, but end up having their accounts drained or being fooled into advancing fictitious taxes, fees or bribes.
home.rica.net |
| 6. | International Investigation Services, Nigeria Division | | | Describing the Nigerian advance fee scam, with a searchable database of known names used by persons participating in the fraud, along with an archive of the letters and fake documents they use, and a bulletin board.
www.superhighway.is |
| 7. | Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud | | | Detailed information on the scheme, centered largely in Nigeria, wherein people are offered a share of millions of dollars to help transfer the money to their bank account. From the U.S. State Department. [PDF format, 1.04M]
www.state.gov |
| 9. | Scam o Rama Presents the Lads from Lagos | | | Archive of the first 125 attempts at advance fee fraud received by the site authors, a sarcastic FAQ on the scam, law enforcement and news links, and fighting crime with humor.
www.scamorama.com |
| 10. | Scam Joke Page | | | Two co-workers string along 419 (advance fee fraud) scam artists, writing back to them under the name of David Lee Roth, president of a Fortune 1000 financial services company.
www.geocities.com |
| 12. | Nigerian Scam | | | Outlines the basics of this con, mentions variations, gives an example of a typical letter, explains how victims are taken in by this long-running scam. Links to further information.
www.snopes.com |
| 13. | Scam from South Africa | | | The sender of the e-mail solicitation claimed to be a South African V.I.P., but it was still the Nigerian 419 scam. E.D. Truitt explains why this con game is dangerous.
www.etee2k.net |
| 14. | West African Advanced Fee Fraud | | | 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 |
| 15. | 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 |
| 18. | Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud | | | Pamphlet from the Australian Institute of Criminology. Press release, abstract, information on ordering the print publication.
www.aic.gov.au |
| 19. | Advance Fee Fraud and Banks | | | Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud from a banker's perspective. In PDF format.
www.icclr.law.ubc.ca |
| 20. | E-Mail Scams: How to Recognize Advance Fee Fraud | | | du jour, interspersed with comments. For the small business owner who might think that just possibly an offer out of the blue for a cut of millions of dollars could be truthful.
www.abcsmallbiz.com |
| 21. | Crackdown on £8.4m African sting | | | The idea of the African elite offering untold riches to strangers via e-mail or fax may seem absurd, but the National Criminal Intelligence Service says that victims are losing millions of pounds. [Scotland on Sunday]
www.scotlandonsunday.com |
| 22. | Scam 419 | | | An online database of scam 419 letters, explanation of how the scam operates, all the necessary links related to the 419 fraud.
www.scam419.com |
| 23. | Scamjunky | | | Join Dick Pleasure and his friends as he winds up Nigerian 419 scam artists by e-mail.
www.geocities.com |
| 24. | The Kizombe Correspondence | | | Transcript of correspondence between the site owner and a perpetrator of the Nigerian email scam.
www.savannahsays.com |
| 25. | Letters From Ghana | | | Read how one man played along with the Nigerian email scam.
www.dogzine.net |
| 27. | Nigerian Scams | | | scam indicators, typical opening lines, phone numbers mentioned, web sites used by the scammers. Names, company names, and e-mail addresses used by the gangsters.
www.nigerianscams.org |
| 28. | Advance Fee - A Repy Generator (humor) | | | Allows you to quickly generate a tongue-in-cheek response to those annoying Nigerian scam emails - plug in a few key names and facts, and your response is good to go.
www.flooble.com |
| 29. | FW - Investment Consulting | | | Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and other fraudulent schemes.
noriainternational.com |
| 31. | The Good Samaritan's 419 Site | | | An e-mail collection of the webmaster's exploits in dealing with 419 scammers. Contains e-mail logs, 419 links, related information and scambaiting tips.
tgs.nightmail.ru |
| 32. | 419 Eater | | | Demonstrating the authors scam baiting and information about 419 fraud.
www.419eater.com |
| 33. | Nigerian Email Scam | | | Dedicated to making people aware of the Nigerian e-mail scam, and using e-mail to toy with the scammers.
www.scambait.com |
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