By David Furlong Have you been contacted by someone from Nigeria asking for your help in transferring money out of the country? If so, then you are one of thousands of people all over the world, including doctors, lawyers engineers and professors, who have been targeted by what is sometimes called the “Nigerian letter scam” [...]

By A. Hathaway Nigeria is a high fraud risk nation, it is the country where 419 scams originated and a large group of internet criminals continue to manipulate and defraud millions from victims around the world, every single day. Although most people think Nigeria’s scamming days are over, and everyone knows about their scams, private [...]

By Billy D Ritchie At first I was reluctant to write an article on the widespread Nigerian rip-off scam known as the “419″, but the fact that I keep getting these in my mailbox, coupled with new news stories every month about people getting taken in by this most obvious of ruses served to change [...]