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Confirmed and Suspected
Nigerian-style Scams: Partial listing
Confirmed =
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Suspected =
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419 = Advance Fee Fraud
NOTE: Some of the scams in this column are also perpetrated by Eastern
European and Asian scam networks in cooperation with Nigerian scam
networks. |
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Non-Nigerian-style frauds list, Partial:
Adoption
Advertising
Asian
Investment
Online
sales
Auto
Sign-overs
Fake sales
Boiler room
Caregiver
Carousel fraud
Child in accident
College degree
Companion
Contractor
Consumer
Counterfeit
Coupon
Credit card
Credit repair
Cults
Dating
Debenture
eBay
eBiz
Elder
Employment
Entertainment industry
Family
Franchise
Vending
machines
Service
companies
FSU
Gifting
Grandparent
Gypsy
Historic Bonds
Railroad Bonds
World War II
Gold Bonds
Dictator regime
bonds
Human Trafficking
High-Yield Investment
Program Fraud
hyip clubs
Home improvement
ID Theft
IRS
Infrastructure loans
Inheritance
In-home caregiver
Insurance
Int'l trade
Investment
Junk bonds
Debentures
Mines
Start-ups
Equities
etc.
Jury duty
Labeling
Letter of Credit fraud
Life insurance equity
Loan
Magazine subscription
Medical
MLM's
Modeling
Mortgage
Partnership
Real Estate
Fake
purchases
Fake sales
Sign-overs
Fake
ownership
Relative
Relationship
Relative in accident
Religious
Resort
Reverse Mortgage
Romance
Self-Liquidating loans
Shell corporations
Street scams
Student loan
Targeting the handicapped
Telemarketing
Time-share
Treasuries
Trustee
Turnkey websites
Vacation
Viatical
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1 |
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Relationship
scams: Not 419
Friendship
Romance
Pastor, minister, or
priest
Charity executive
Stranded American (Brit,
Aussie, German, etc.)
Stranded Soldier
[name of country] Citizen
working in West Africa, North Africa, South Africa, Middle East
Translation services
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2 |
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Employment
scams: Foreign employer:
Not 419
Payment Processing
Receiving
drafts
Receiving
funds - wired into account
Receiving
funds - Western Union pickup
Reshipper
Secret Shopper
Check Writer
Credit card recipient
Employment agency
Private Hire
Corporate Recruiter
Translation services
Nanny
Exchange Student
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3 |
ê |
Seminar scam |
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4 |
ê |
Hotel, motel, Bed & Breakfast
Scams - not 419 Apartment
rental scams - not 419 |
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ê |
Charity
scam - not 419 |
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6 |
ê |
Fake web site scams:
Completely fake copy or stolen material or mirrored web sites
Courier
Bank
Charity
Employment
Porn
Loan
Stores - online shopping
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7 |
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Classified Ad scams - not 419 Selling non-existent product on both
online and offline (local newspapers and magazines) classified ads. |
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8 |
ê |
eBay (Auction Site) scams - not 419 Selling non-existent products on auction
sites. Often the auction accounts are opened using the personal
information of a Payment Processing (PP) victim such that the buyers
send their money to the PP victim who, totally unaware of the auction
account, believes he is receiving payments due to his foreign employer. |
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9 |
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Overpayment scam - not 419
This was the original counterfeit check scheme,
devised and test marketed by Former Soviet Union (FSU) scam bosses in 2002.
Preys on anyone selling something over the Internet on an auction site,
through Classifieds, or through Bulletin Boards: cars, jewelry, boats,
furniture, etc. |
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10 |
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Loan scams, mostly run out of the Canadian hub with a few coming out of
West African hubs. |
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11 |
ê |
Lottery scam |
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12 |
ê |
Green Card Lottery scam |
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13 |
ê |
Assassination/Threat of physical
harm scam - Extortion, not 419 |
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14 |
ê |
Black Dollar Scam, aka Wash-Wash |
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15 |
ê |
ID Theft porn sites |
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16 |
ê |
Classic 419 (Advance Fee Fraud):
ATM
Abandoned Account
Adoption (deaf children)
Animal, pet, puppy
Black Dollar
Canadian Loan company
Currency Exchange
Dying Woman/Man
Foreign Oil Company
Government Contract
Grants & Donations
Green Card
Inheritance
Orphan
Over-invoice
Princess
Puppy, pet, buy an animal
Reload (email that looks like a
continuation of an existing correspondence string)
Survivor
Soldier
Travel
Trunk of money
War Refugee
Zimbabwe Farmer
And more….
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17 |
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Business scams:
Partnership with a foreign company
Import/Export
Investment in the target’s company
Loan to the target’s company
Bulk purchases
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18 |
ê |
Phishing - not 419 |
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19 |
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Packaged Desalination Plants |
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20 |
s |
Packaged Oil Refineries |
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21 |
ê |
Oil scams
- not 419
Crude
Refined
Bonny Light Crude
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22 |
ê |
Gold scams
- not 419
Little gold bars
Standard gold bars
Powdered
Raw
Stored
Jeweler's
Mine shares
Leased
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23 |
ê |
Commodities scams - "Daisy
Chain scams"
Wheat
Sugar
Teak
Precious African woods
Frozen
chicken parts
Precious
metals
Precious gems
Scrap
metal
Scrap
ships
Cigarettes
Lumber
etc.
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24 |
ê |
International Trade /
Financial Instruments (High-Yield Investment Program Fraud - HYIP) - "Daisy Chain scams"
Letters of Credit
Standby Letters of Credit
Credit Enhancement
Leased Letters of Credit
& Bank Guarantees
Bank Guarantees
Debentures
Certificates of Deposit
Safekeeping Receipts
Infrastructure Loans
No Repay Loans
more ... See our
Dictionary
of Financial Scam Terms©
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25 |
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hyip clubs (all lower case, not to be confuse with category 24, HYIP
scams) - Epidemic on the internet, this is a volume-based scam that
depends on small "investments" sometime referred to as "spends."
There are indications that there is Russian scam involvement in the
cyber currency exchange portion of the scam. |
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26 |
ê |
Travel
Nanny
Student
Sponsor
Rental
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27 |
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IDENTITY THEFT - major component of all their scams |
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NEW SCHEMES and scheme combinations are developed on an ongoing basis. Some
schemes are only perpetrated regionally (India, Middle East, affinity,
culture-based, business-based as in fake shell accounts, and so on)
making it difficult to formulate a complete list at any given time. |
