Tag: 419 SCAM

Jayne Scherrman, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was the unfortunate victim of a scam that turned her compassion and trust into a $4,000 profit, the AP reports. A still unknown crook hacked the Facebook account of Jayne's friend Grace Parry and began to send Jayne messages, purporting to be Grace and claiming that she and her husband had been detained in London and were in need of money. Jayne ...

We're all feeling the current recession -- whether by losing our jobs, having less play money in our accounts, or simply being able to hire three servants for what one cost three years ago. But it's not just Americans who get the pinch. Would you believe Nigerian scammers are having a hard time of it, too? The Washington Post claims that young Nigerian men have to double-time it make what they ...

Of all the scams out there on the Internets, the Nigerian (or 419) scam is far and away the most well-known. Individuals have fallen for it and lost their entire savings, banks have fallen for it and lost millions, and even a British politician was sucked in. We're happy to help inform people about this scam so that they can avoid it, but it seems some Americans are paying attention for the ...

Oh, those Nigerian scammers -- they can be mighty crafty. Just a few days after finding out that one of their ranks managed to convince Citigroup to send him $27 million we find out that another scammer got a hold of the address book of a member of UK government, sending out fake e-mails to a variety of other upper-echelon members of state indicating he was trapped in Nigeria, had lost his wallet, ...