419 Advance Fee Fraud Nigerian Scam
An archive of e-mailed solicitations received, how much the web site owner would have supposedly made by now, which scenarios are used (e.g., dead foreigner, or chemically treated money), explanation of how the scam operates, and links.
419 Fraud.com
Provides information on 419 Nigerian "advanced fee" fraud.
419Legal
Advance Free Fraud forums, information and links to fraudulent sites.
Advance Fee Fraud
Outlines how common variations of this scam operate, including loans, phony sweepstakes, west African letters. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Advance Fee Fraud and Banks
Transcript of a talk on this type of fraud from a banker's perspective.
Africanscam.co.uk
Information and links on 419 scams; correspondence and photographs from some scambaiting projects.
Anatomy of a 419 scam
Detailed examination of how an American man fell for a fraudulent scheme operating out of the UK. [The Register]
Artists Against 419
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.
Brian Wizard
Offers free pdf-format books about fighting Nigerian 419 letter scams and email fraud.
Crackdown on £8.4m African sting
The idea of the African elite offering untold riches to strangers via e-mail or fax may seem absurd, but the National Criminal Intelligence Service says that victims are losing millions of pounds. [Scotland on Sunday]
E-Mail fraud scheme: Despite warnings, Americans continue to lose millions to Nigerian con artists
Those official-sounding letters from someone in Africa are too good to be true. Article includes quotes from victims. Also, a sidebar article on the columnist's correspondence with a Nigerian man who claimed to need help to transfer millions of dollars to Amsterdam. [Detroit Free Press]
E-Mail Scams: How to Recognize Advance Fee Fraud
The "Nigerian Letter" du jour, interspersed with comments. For the small business owner who might think that just possibly an offer out of the blue for a cut of millions of dollars could be truthful.
Email Scams and Internet Frauds
A collection of advance fee fraud messages from all over the globe.
FW - Investment Consulting
Examples of business financing fraud (based on advance fees) and other fraudulent schemes.
Greater Things: Nigerian / 419 Scam
The experience of a businessman fooled by this scam. Contact is initiated via letter, fax, or email offers of millions of dollars in compensation for holding even more millions of dollars in your bank account.
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