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Lottery scam letter Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money.
Nigerian Letter Scams prey on various human emotions – greed, ego, desperation, and/or the desire to be a hero.
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.
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 ...
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.
If well made, the movie about Hushpuppi will show how the 38-year-old’s social media posts led the FBI to him. Mo Abudu and Will Packer know people want to watch.
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 ...
Beloved One, I have the Courage to Crave Indulgence for this most opportune business venture... Look familiar? A day doesn't go by day that I don't receive an e-mail from people with names like Dr ...