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Old 20-05-2005, 11:24   #14
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Re: Yet anouther email scam

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey
I've been looking through the job sites and found this :

This sounds a bit fishy to me - or is it real? - it's the $900 fee that makes me think it's not quite right...
There is one word, right at the top of that email, that confirms this is a scam.

Nigeria.

Sad but true. It's not for nothing that advanced fee fraud has become widely known as '419' fraud, after Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code. Most of this stuff originates from there.

If you want to know more about it, and what some people are doing to combat it, there are plenty of belly laughs to be had here: www.419eater.com
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