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The Nigerian Scam, also known as the "419 fraud ", after the number of the nigerian law for advanced fee fraud, is started by the 'scam artist by sending letters similar to the ones reported at the buttom of this page, in which the scammer claims it should transfer incredibly high sums of money, tipically 25-45 million dollars (!!) in a foreign account and asks for your help. The money was acquired more or less legally by various means, for instance by overinvoicing governmental contracts, and should be tranferred out of Nigeria.

Your assistance is required. Your personal income will be 10-30% of this sum. Would you believe this? Many people did and payed high prices, including their lives, for that. The scam goes like this: you accept to act as foreign partner for the scammer. At some point of the money transfer procedure, something will go wrong and you will be required to pay a sum, even small, to facilitate the bureaucratic procedures in loco.

Once you accept this, it becomes difficult to refuse further little helps, in the illusion that this are very low sums as compared to the final expected gain. You enter a circle at the end of which your bank accounts are empty. In many cases, the victims are requested to travel to Nigeria or neighbour countries to personally intervene in the procedures. Once the victims are there, it becomes easy to spoil them, kidnapp them or worse. Some people just disappeared.

The financial loss of US in this business was estimated in the order 100 millions US $ per year in the last years. The recent recieval of a few such letters, addressed to one of my personal e-mail addresses, stimulated my curiosity, hence this web page.

Also, although the matter is quite serious, I think these letters are funny and represent an expression of creativity of the human mind. One of the links reported below classifies them as a new litterary genre, I quite agree.

For this reason I think it is worthwhile to collect variations on the theme and make them available on the net.

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