The aim of the site is to provide information and assistance to unsuspecting potential victims of the 419er (advance fee scammer). Provides articles, a lexicology of terms, links, statistics and anti-scams.
Detailed description of how a person looking for a roommate online found himself dealing with a scammer.
This site discusses the advance fee fraud scheme in Nigeria and touches upon the problems facing that third world country. This page also includes links on issues affecting that nation.
Offers free pdf-format books about fighting Nigerian 419 letter scams and email fraud.
A collection of advance fee fraud messages from all over the globe.
An insight to a fraudulent email campaign.
Outlines how common variations of this scam operate, including loans, phony sweepstakes, west African letters. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Federal Trade Commission alert on those polite letters from strangers in trouble, which promise a large financial reward for discreetly helping them.
Provides information on fake bank sites and how to distinguish them from legitimate ones, along with announcements of monthly flash mob events aiming to shut down fake bank sites through bandwidth siphoning.
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