Advance Fee Fraud
Advance fee fraud is a scheme that involves fraudulently extracting money from people by make making numerous false promises, and making them believe they would be greatly benefited by the scheme. A person is requested to pay an upfront fee before getting into the scheme. The advance fee fraud is also often called the nigerian fraud, nigerian scam or 419 scam. The advance fee scam's Nigeria-connection came into the limelight due to the massive proliferation of such confidence tricks in the mid-eighties. However these scams are also operated in the other African nations, including Togo, Ghana, Benin, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Africa. This scam is greatly on the increase in European cities with large West African populations, notably London, Amsterdam and Madrid, and recently Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Canada have been engulfed by this scam. Originally, the scammers used to target mainly heads of companies and church officials, but increased use of e-mail spam and instant messaging has made many private citizens easy targets. There are many forms of advance fee scams such as credit card scams, charity scams, lottery scams, internet dating scams, college admission scams, employment scams, internet job scams, loan scams & grant scams, credit card scams, contest scams (poetry contest scams), overseas purchase scams, fake advertisement scams etc. Sometimes scammers invite the victims to visit their country to make them meet real or fake government officials. These victims are then sometimes held for ransom. Sometime the victim are smuggled into the country without a visa and then threatened into giving up more money, as the penalties for being in a foreign country without a visa are severe, and in extreme cases the victims are even murdered. The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about the Nigerian scam. It articulates, “If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria, or any other country, for that matter, forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov. The United States Department of the Treasury advises "You may also email the 419er documents, especially any banking data they may have given you, marked as described above, to Task Force Main in DC 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov; that is also acceptable". There's no need to waste your time and money on fake programs and empty promises to make easy money on the internet today. Take a quick look at what I use to earn passive profits without worrying about when the bottom will drop out - Click Here to Learn More Warmly 
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