The Nigerian Prince Scam, also known as the 419 scam (named after Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which deals with fraud), didn’t actually start with email or the internet.

That rich Nigerian prince fellow must have found someone to take all his money, because he hasn’t emailed me in ages. I’ve also noticed that my friends have become better at international ...

That rich Nigerian prince fellow must have found someone to take all his money because he hasn’t emailed me in ages. I’ve also noticed that my friends have become better at international travel.

The Nigerian Prince Scam, also known as the 419 scam (named after Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which deals with ...

This toll-owing hoax follows one of the original internet ruses, the “Nigerian prince” scam. Many will remember that the so-called prince poses as a rich person who needs to move huge sums of ...

Twingate analyzed data from U.S. federal government agencies for this list of 10 common cybercrime characters encountered by consumers in scams. - fizkes // Shutterstock Twingate analyzed data ...

You'd think the days when the Nigerian prince scams tricked people ... running such social engineering schemes still make more than $700,000 a year from Americans who believe they'd get rich ...

And while they hadn’t yet asked for money, he was struck by how much their pitch resembled the classic Nigerian prince email scheme, in which a rich, potentially fictitious, foreigner asks an ...

That rich Nigerian prince fellow must have found someone to take all his money, because he hasn't emailed me in ages. I've also noticed that my friends have become better at international travel ...

That rich Nigerian prince fellow must have found someone to take all his money because he hasn’t emailed me in ages. I’ve also noticed that my friends have become better at international ...