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	Metropolitan Police Service - Fraud Alert
		SCD6 Economic and Specialist Crime OCU is issuing warnings, as part of a crime prevention initiative against a type of fraud commonly know as 'West African' or '419' advance fee fraud.
		Advance fee fraud or '419' fraud (named after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code) is a popular crime with the West African organised criminal networks.
		Contact Us If you believe you might be being set up as a target for fraud or if you are an investigator and you think you might be dealing with this type of activity then please contact the SCD6 Economic and Specialist Crime OCU at the address or by e-mail.
	www.met.police.uk /fraudalert/419.htm (387 words)

	Advance fee fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain.
		A variant of the scam will appear to be sent by a lawyer representing the estate of some long-lost relative the victim never knows he or she had (the victim's surname will be inserted into the e-mail message) who perished along with his or her family in a car or airplane accident last April.
		The scheme or script of an advance fee fraud, e.g., the late dictator format (the scammer pretends to be a relative of a dictator, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Advance_fee_fraud (3594 words)

	: Web Links : Society: Issues: Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Advance Fee Fraud and Banks - Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud from a banker's perspective.
		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.
		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.
	search.ncblue.net /dir.asp?cat=/Society/Issues/Fraud/Advance_Fee_Fraud (1084 words)

	Email Scam Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The perpetrators of Advance Fee Fraud (AFF), known internationally as "419" fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes, are often very creative and innovative.
		Victims are often convinced of the authenticity of Advance Fee Fraud schemes by the forged or false documents bearing apparently official Nigerian government letterhead, seals, as well as false letters of credit, payment schedules and bank drafts.
		Indications are that Advance Fee Fraud grosses hundreds of millions of dollars annually and the losses are continuing to escalate.
	www.scamdex.com /419-index.htm (1040 words)

	Advance fee fraud - 419 fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Advance fee frauds involve individuals or organisations being targeted by unsolicited communications offering significant money-making opportunities.
		The most well-known type of advance fee fraud is West African 419 fraud, which exploits the gullibility and greed of its victims, who are often drawn into colluding with the fraudsters, and are thus less likely to report the crime.
		Millions of unsolicited letters and emails are sent out annually, enticing victims to offer their bank accounts as the destination of large sums of money (often openly stated as being illicitly gained) in return for a percentage of the funds.
	www.verdala.com /419.htm (282 words)

	United States Secret Service: Financial Crimes Division
		Fraud associated with EBT programs is a violation of two of the Secret Service's primary jurisdictions: Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029, Access Device Fraud and United States Code, Section 1030, Computer Fraud.
		The perpetrators of Advance Fee Fraud are often very creative and innovative.
		This fraud is called "4-1-9" fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code that addresses fraud schemes.
	www.ustreas.gov /usss/financial_crimes.shtml (3232 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud Schemes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Advance Fee Frauds (AFF) use letters, emails and faxes to operate a confidence scam that appears to be a business proposal from officials from a foreign government or an existing foreign business.
		AFF criminals obtain the names and address of their victims by reading trade journals or advertising in newspapers and magazines, searching the Internet or business directories, or contact local chambers of commerce.
		If the victim decides not to pay any more money, sign a contract, or participate in the fraud any longer, the victim may be subject to threats, physical abuse or be held hostage until he or she agrees to the perpetrator's demands.
	www.atg.wa.gov /safetynet/AdvanceFeeFraud.shtml (698 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud
		Advance Fee fraud is not a new phenomenon, but it can and does, appear in a variety of forms.
		Another variation of Advance Fee fraud, the one seen most frequently, involves individuals or businesses legitimately seeking finance which they have not been able to obtain from trading banks or regular providers.
		Posing as a venture - capitalist or the agent of one, the Advance Fee fraudster first convinces the would-be borrower that the required funding is available, but that a fee or commission must first be paid to a nominated account as “security” or as “a sign of good faith” or as a “non-refundable deposit”.
	www.sfo.govt.nz /advfee.html (818 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud
		Advance fee fraud is introduced in several ways.
		The connection between the various types of Advance Fee fraud is the demand for advance fees or payments before the promised transaction.
		There is a new trend in the ever-growing Advance Fee Fraud Scams called “the Nigerian Hot Jobs scam.” It is a new type of Advance Fee fraud, where a vacancy advertisement is sent on the Internet via email or posted on a fake website.
	www.exportmichigan.com /itf_internet_fraud_aff.htm (770 words)

	Advanced Fee Fraud (4-1-9)(Update) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Fraud committed by West African crime groups is estimated to cost the UK at least £3.5 billion a year.
		The most common type of fraud is 'advance fee'.
		In a typical '419' (advanced fee fraud) letter, the author purports to be a senior government or central bank official who has managed to over inflate a contract, generating a personal profit.
	www.niscc.gov.uk /niscc/docs/br-20021210-00442.html?lang=en (645 words)

	Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The advance fee fraud is perpetrated by enticing the victim with bogus 'business' proposal, which promises millions of US dollars as a reward.
		A favourable response to the letter is followed by excuses why the funds cannot be remitted readily and subsequently by demands for proportionate sharing of payments for various 'taxes' and 'fees' supposedly to facilitate the processing and remittance of the alleged funds.
		To consummate the transaction, the 'victim' would be required to pay 'advance fees' for various purposes: e.g.
	www.nigeriaembassyusa.org /fraud.shtml (680 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud
		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.
		Advance Fee Fraud 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.
		Advance Fee Fraud Having fun with the e-mail scammers who promise you a fortune.
	www.wocatalog.com /wo/society/issues/fraud/advance-fee-fraud/advance-fee-fraud.html (320 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Fraud: Advance Fee Fraud
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Fraud/Advance_Fee_Fraud (967 words)

	Nigeria Advance Fee Fraud - scam - 419 - email hoax - con - confidence scheme
		These emails are from groups of con artists who have literally developed a national industry in Nigeria from engaging in a scheme called "advance fee fraud", or 4-1-9 (after the section in the Nigerian criminal code covering such activity).
		Of course, after this initial fee is paid, yet another payment is required.
		In the 1920's (though research has revealed evidence leads to examples of this con as early as 1588) a type of advance fee fraud flourished that became known as "The Spanish Prisoner" con.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/nigeria-fraud.html (2100 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Common Fraud Schemes
		Nigerian letter frauds combine the threat of impersonation fraud with a variation of an advance fee scheme in which a letter, mailed from Nigeria, offers the recipient the "opportunity" to share in a percentage of millions of dollars that the author, a self-proclaimed government official, is trying to transfer illegally out of Nigeria.
		Other letter of credit frauds occur when con artists offer a "letter of credit" or "bank guarantee" as an investment wherein the investor is promised huge interest rates on the order of 100 to 300 percent annually.
		The purpose of these frauds is generally to encourage the victim to send money to a foreign bank where it is eventually transferred to an off-shore account that is in the control of the con artist.
	www.fbi.gov /majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm (2900 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud Fraud Issues Society
		- 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.
		- 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.
		- An explanation of this fraud and why it is dangerous, a running total of how much he has been offered by these spammers, names of the people with millions to give away, excerpts from several 419 e-mails.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Issues/Fraud/Advance_Fee_Fraud (1109 words)

	419 Advance Fee Fraud
		Victims are offered huge sums of money, normally in return for the use of their bank account for routing of an even more improbable sum of money out of countries such as Nigeria, Sierre Leone, Ghana and so on.
		Victims frequently continue to pay the fees requested by the 419ers until they are virtually broke and in serious debt.
		Further individuals are entrusted as signatories of bank accounts to which the transfers of 'fees' are made.
	www.ultrascan.nl /html/419_advance_fee_fraud.html (359 words)

	Advance Fee Business Scams
		Many Americans are familiar with Nigerian advance fee business scams and the vast amounts of money lost in these fraudulent transactions.
		However, unbeknown to many until recently, advance fee business deals and investments of this sort have also been initiated in other countries such as Togo, Ghana, and Benin.
		Advance fee fraud is expanding so rapidly that within recent years there has been a surge of websites and private industry businesses developed to specifically combat fraudulent business propositions.
	www.travel.state.gov /travel/tips/brochures/brochures_1216.html (1039 words)

	Advance Fee Frauds: What’s the Problem Now?
		The fraud may be as simple as an offshore professional charging outrageous fees with no work actually being done, or involve an elaborate investment structure with the money being laundered offshore.
		Another version of advance fee fraud, and perhaps one of the most notorious, is the Nigerian advance fee fraud, also named 419 fraud after the section of the Nigerian Penal Code that prohibits such scams.
		The advance fees that are required of the victim in order to combat these problems are also attributed to supposed corruption within the Nigerian bureaucracy.
	www.escapeartist.com /Offshore_Finance_Canada/Advance_Fee_Frauds.html (2987 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud - aa419
		These fees may be in the form of bribes to officials, duties, taxes, account fees, etc. As each charge is paid by the gullible victim, a new fee arises.
		In modern times this form of fraud has become a major 'industry' in Nigeria, so much so that it is now commonly referred to as "Nigerian Fraud", even when perpetrated by citizens of other countries.
		Another common name is "419 fraud" after Section 419 of the Nigerian Penal code, the section that specifically prohibits this type of crime.
	wiki.aa419.org /index.php/Advance_Fee_Fraud (407 words)

	The Netherlands in Australia
		Foreign lottery fraud is distinct type of fraud, but the methods of operations are quite similar.
		If you are an Australian citizen and suspect that you may be a target of one of these schemes, please view the information on advance fee fraud on the website of Scamwatch or www.nigerianembassy.nl click on 'advance fee frauds'.
		We would like to alert Australian citizens that Angela Almera is a well known scam artist and that none of the events that will take place according to her letter are likely to take place, or at least not through her "divine" intervention.
	www.netherlands.org.au /pages/page104_en.asp (560 words)

	Quatloos! -- Advance Fee Fraud Museum (Nigerian 419 Scam...)
		You are promised something valuable for free, but you have to pay something first -- like a loan application fee or a bribe to somebody to release the asset.
		There are so many varieties of this fraud that they are impossible to catalogue, but we'll show you a few of the most common so that you will be on guard for the next "too good to be true" deal that comes along.
		No portion of this website may be reprinted in whole or in part without the express, written permission of Financial and Tax Fraud Associates, Inc. This site is http://www.quatloos.com.
	www.quatloos.com /advanced_fee_fraud.htm (472 words)

	Halfbakery: Advance fee fraud (419) reply-bot
		The structure of the communication between the scammer and scammee in advance fee fraud (or "419") scams is fairly simple.
		The advance fee is not always the scam itself.
		At the appropriate moment, the bot might mention that the advance fee is all ready to go but that local law dictates that administrative charges on money transfers to certain countries must be paid in advance by the receiving party -- so if the Nigerian princeling could see his way clear...
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Advance_20fee_20fraud_20(419)_20reply-bot (655 words)

	The "Nigerian Letter" Advance Fee Fraud - ABC's of Small Business
		It's made even more convincing by what the victim of the fraud experiences once they have given the scamster their contact information.
		Then there are other fees, fees to government agencies and other officials.
		Advance fee fraud scams can be entertaining to read but poisonous for your wealth, health, family and friends.
	www.abcsmallbiz.com /bizbasics/misc/nigerian_letter.html (1659 words)

	Advance Fee Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		These are known internationally as 4-1-9 fraud, after the section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes.
		The individual is asked to provide up-front or advance funds for various taxes, attorney fees, transaction fees or bribes.
		Fraud Unit, Amsterdam Police, Police Headquarters, PB 2287, 1000 CG Amsterdam, Netherlands, tel.
	thehague.usembassy.gov /advance_fee_fraude.html (478 words)

	Scamorama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Fraud as literature: why should scammers have all the fun?
		A compilations of correspondence with "419" advance fee fraud scammers.
		-- correspondence with "419" advance fee fraud scammers
	www.scamorama.com /scamorama_feed.rss (41 words)

	Nigerian advance fee fraud
		These letters or emails hold out the promise of large sums of money in exchange for payment of advance fees, transaction costs, customs duties, etc. In some cases, the recipient is informed that he has won a lottery.
		The swindle is now so widespread that national and international law enforcement authorities refer to it as "Nigerian bank fraud", "Nigerian advance fee fraud" and "419 fraud".
		Suggestions that a lottery has been won fall into a separate category although the method of operation is comparable and the fraud is perpetrated by the same swindlers.
	www.netherlands-embassy.no /nigerian%20advance%20fee%20fraud.htm (1608 words)

	LavaCUBED \Society\Issues\Fraud\Advance_Fee_Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		FW - Investment Consulting - Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and other fraudulent schemes.
		The Sani Abacha Fraud - An insight to a fraudulent email campaign.
		I crave your distinguished indulgence (and all your cash) - The author describes the mass of offers he has received from African nations, offering him a share of millions, with a description of how the scam works.
	www.lavacubed.com /new.cats.php?path=/Society/Issues/Fraud/Advance_Fee_Fraud (1072 words)

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