Individuals are asked to provide
personal identifiers such as Social Security numbers, bank account
numbers, and other similar data. Once this information is received,
the victims find that they have lost large sums of money.
If you are the
victim of a scam or fraud and want to report it for enforcement,
then you may contact specific agency related to the scam
category. In some cases there is more than one agency to
contact. Some scams fit into more than one category.
Usually Scam operates as follows:
the target receives an unsolicited fax, email, or letter often
concerning Nigeria or another African nation containing either a
money laundering or other illegal proposal OR you may receive a
Legal and Legitimate business proposal by normal means. Common
variations on the Scam include "overinvoiced" or "double
invoiced" oil or other supply and service contracts where the
scammers want to get the overage out of Nigeria; crude oil and
other commodity deals; a "bequest" left you in a will; "money
cleaning" where scammer has a lot of currency that needs to be
"chemically cleaned" before it can be used and he needs the cost
of the chemicals; "spoof banks" where
there is supposedly money in your name already on deposit; and
"paying" for a purchase with a check larger than the amount
required and
asking for change to be advanced. Or the victim will just be
stiffed on a legitimate goods or services contract...the
variations are very creative
and virtually endless.
Usually scammers send their
emails using a free email accounts like hotmail, yahoo and so
on.
Most letters and emails originate
from or are traceable back to Nigeria. However, some originate
from other nations, mostly also West
African nations such as Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Ivory Coast ( Cote D'Ivoire ) etc. In most cases emails from
other nations are
also Nigerian in that the "Home Office" involved is Nigeria
regardless of the source of the contact materials. But there are
occasionally some "local" copycats trying to emulate the success
of the Nigerians.
Other scam types:
Auction Scams
Charity Scams
Contest Scams
Hotel Scams
Investment Scams
Insurance Scams
Internet Scams
Lottery Scams
Mail Order Scams
Mortgage Scams
Pyramid Scams
Religious Scams
Retail Scams
Used Car Scams
These kind of scam usually
performed by individuals.
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