If you get emails from any so called females ( mostly they are fake) who you don't know,especially from the African countries like Nigeria,Ghana,Senegal, simply ignore it.Most of them are frauds and they do the emotional blackmail to you.Some severe cases even lead to the death.So be aware of that.
These ladies are specially trained for internet fraud.In the beginning they send the complimentary mails to be their friend.And slowly they try to be very close to us.Slowly over the time, they disclose their fake reality to show that they are in a problem.
Monday, 13 April 2009
Thursday, 9 April 2009
Never believe them
It is better suggested not to believe them.You might get email from a stranger where they could lure you telling to provide huge amount of money.Just delete the mail or you can reply them mentioning you are not interested with them.In the next section i will mention my own story.One of my brothers was a victim.How did he become victim, and how much he lost? I will write about it in my next post.Until then......Tom.
Sunday, 5 April 2009
What is advance fee fraud?
Well,every body might have heard about this Advanced Fee Fraud.This is a type of a internet fraud.In such fraud people uses the fake documents to lure others.They pretend to be what they are not and present the fake documents to those whom they are trying to get money from.It varies according to the nature.The mostly found case are
1)Case related to inheritance
2)Pretending to be refugees
3)Others
Most of the case i have found are from Senegal,Liberia,Sudan,Rwanda,some other eastern African countries.They have their extensive networks and it is very difficult to control it since those frauds are committed from unknown location, in a sense that they frequently change their location,telephone number and to be safe.Now a days they are also operating their work from Asia also.They have their network now in Malaysia,Indonesia and other gulf countries.
What is this indeed?
An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer[2]),[3] the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.
The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter,fax, or Telex.The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software significantly lowered the cost of sending scam letters by utilizing the Internet. In the 2000s, the 419 scam has spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and, more recently, from North America, Western Europe (mainly UK),and Australia.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud.The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
The advance-fee fraud is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner scamin which the trickster would tell the scam victim that a (fictitious) rich prisoner had promised to share treasure with the victim if the latter would send money to bribe the prison guards.
What actually they do to lure people
In this section i will present my experiences regarding this.
1)Case related to inheritance
2)Pretending to be refugees
3)Others
Most of the case i have found are from Senegal,Liberia,Sudan,Rwanda,some other eastern African countries.They have their extensive networks and it is very difficult to control it since those frauds are committed from unknown location, in a sense that they frequently change their location,telephone number and to be safe.Now a days they are also operating their work from Asia also.They have their network now in Malaysia,Indonesia and other gulf countries.
What is this indeed?
An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer[2]),[3] the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.
The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter,fax, or Telex.The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software significantly lowered the cost of sending scam letters by utilizing the Internet. In the 2000s, the 419 scam has spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and, more recently, from North America, Western Europe (mainly UK),and Australia.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud.The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
The advance-fee fraud is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner scamin which the trickster would tell the scam victim that a (fictitious) rich prisoner had promised to share treasure with the victim if the latter would send money to bribe the prison guards.
What actually they do to lure people
In this section i will present my experiences regarding this.
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