The Basics Of Nigerian Frauds 

An overview of Nigeria money transfer scams

Well over 2 billion people worldwide are now accessing the internet regularly so it should come as no surprise that there are now an ever increasing number of online scams to look-out for and thus so have the number of victims. Some of the most convincing scams that people are caught out by are relationship frauds, advance fee scams and dating scams. The leading countries that seem to be involved with these type of online scams are for whatever reason: Russia, Philippines, Ghana and S, Africa. However it is Nigeria that we are going to look at today more specifically there infamous scam known as 491 fraud or more simply The Nigerian fraud.

Scammers vary in their abilities whereby some scams are so ridiculous to other scams where by they appear so real and convincing that the truth and scam are difficult to tell apart until it is too late of course. Whilst it would be completely ridiculous to black mark all contact Nigeria nigeria as the vast vast majority are perfectly law abiding citizens be on the lookout for a scam along the lines of the following: 


To begin with first contact is usually made by email with semi-realistic claims such as a large amount inheritance finhertance is due to family fanily but they afford afors the lawyers fees to release the money. Some message will try to make themselves see more plausible referring refering present day tday events and international circumstances these are just confidence tricks. They may also claim they need to bribe corrupt workers or whatever n order to gain access to the money. Of course they will eventually ask you for the money in exchange for a significant amount when the money is finally release.

Of course the money is never released and once you have sent your money contact is either usually stopped or they may invent new circumstances to prise more money from you now that they have got leverage on you from your original money transfer. They may say the bribe wasn't enough or whatever. Whatever never go looking for the scammers this could put you in real physical danger.

Using your common sense is usually enough to avoid money transfer fees but here are a few more words of guidance: