A "Nigerian Scam" is a typical online scam mostly originating from the country of Nigeria. It is also known as Nigerian Fraud, Nigerian internet Scams, Nigerian 419 scam or just 419 Scam. 419 is the penal code number used to convict the persons or company for crimes involving this kind of scam. So in most cases the Nigerian Scam is called the 419 Scam.

Typically with Nigerian Scams you will receive an email from a so called Nigerian banker stating that some account holder is dead leaving behind millions of dollar in his account. They claim that they can do something and transfer the money to your account (by falsely creating documents to show that you’re the legal hire to that inheritance).

In the meantime they try to extract your account number and other bank related information from you. They sometimes ask you to transfer a small amount of money to establish link between your account and deceased persons account.

Once they have all the information about your account they will transfer the money in your account to their account and vanish.

Despite all of the awareness programs and the publicity of the Nigerian scam tons of people still fall prey to them. It is spreading in the various African nations and also other parts of the world.

The United States have taken strict measures against these kinds of scams. In fact the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a public alert urging people to inform them about such scams at spam@uce.gov.

Even the United States Department of Treasury has setup a task force advising people to contact them about any 419 document by mailing details to 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov.

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