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by billso on Friday, 9 July 2004

World: Anatomy of a 419 scam [printer-friendly] | The Reg­is­ter: Beware the Niger­ian scam­mers. “Sadly, though, it’s clear that the 419ers con­tinue to oper­ate with con­sid­er­able suc­cess. The fol­low­ing is an account of how one US cit­i­zen (we have called him DG) recently lost $1,000 to a UK-based 419 out­fit who used a com­bi­na­tion of plau­si­ble cor­re­spon­dence, phone calls and a fake bank web­site to reel in their victim. ”

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