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2. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...

3. Emmanuel Nwude - Wikipedia

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   Emmanuel Nwude. Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, [1] is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. [2] He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, [3] of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in ...

4. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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   A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim. Fraudulent acts may involve access to the victim's money, bank accounts, credit cards, passports, Cash App [2], e-mail accounts, or ...

5. Nigerian man in OKC sentenced in romance scam involving ...

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   A Nigerian man living in Oklahoma City was sentenced this week to federal prison for committing an online “romance scam” against an Alabama woman.

6. Nigerian online scams are everywhere. This case led to guilty ...

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   Diana Eckert, 67, pleaded guilty to collecting money in 3 kinds of fraud: romance, decal and car-buying scams. Feds say she sent bitcoin to Nigeria.

7. Nigerian letter scams are whimsical in thought, but remain a ...

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   Nigerian Letter Scams prey on various human emotions – greed, ego, desperation, and/or the desire to be a hero.

8. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The traditional romance scam has now moved into Internet dating sites, gaining a new name of catfishing. The con actively cultivates a romantic relationship which often involves promises of marriage.

9. Obinwanne Okeke - Wikipedia

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   Obinwanne Okeke (born November 9, 1987) also known as Invictus Obi is a Nigerian entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the United States for internet fraud that caused $11M losses to his victims. [1] After initially pleading guilty, on February 16, 2021, Okeke was sentenced to ten years in ...