Most people know this for what it is: a scam. Also known as the 419 fraud, the Nigerian prince is a variation on ... But fraud doesn’t have to be high-tech to succeed, as social engineering ...

The well-known scam often starts with an email from a “Nigerian prince” or an equivalent high ranking official who needs assistance to retrieve an inheritance. Though the scam has been around ...

The "Nigerian prince" email scam is one of the most notorious cybercimes out there, and the people behind it may have hit a bit of a snag after one of their alleged co-conspirators was arrested in ...

In its earliest incarnations, the scam involved someone claiming to be a Nigerian prince sending a target an email saying he desperately needed help smuggling wealth out of his country.

The Nigerian prince scam will never die. It’s lasted in various forms for decades now, but the latest iteration is downright amazing. Can’t you give $3 million to help a Nigerian astronaut get ...

This afternoon a number of high profile Twitter accounts ... This is reminiscent of the “Nigerian prince” scams, a form of advance-fee scam where an email asks for help with a small sum ...

Filmmaker Faraday Okoro’s debut ‘Nigerian Prince’ comes courtesy of the Tribeca ... In his orchestration of a black money scam alongside partner Baba (Toyin Oshinaike)—which has the ...

Police in New Orleans have arrested a 67-year-old man after they say he helped swindle people out of thousands of dollars as a middleman in a “Nigerian prince” internet scam. The New Orleans ...

It’s the logic behind many a successful rope, and the logic that has propped up one of the longest-running cons of them all: the Nigerian prince. In the early years ... predecessor of the e-mail ...

After 10 years, a Kansas resident who took part in a Nigerian prince scam is getting $110,000 back, thanks to the Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. Frederick Haines, a self-employed handyman ...