Hello all.
A 'heads-up' on
4-1-9 or Advance Fee Fraud Schemes. Some of you will know about them, some of you will not.
For those who do not, they are an illegal, money-making scam designed to lighten your bank account by considerable sums of cash.
The scheme used to be snail-mail based, with armies of Nigerian workers appealling for help with apparently genuine, hand-written letters. In reality, the workers were under the control of an organiser. The general principle was 'shooting-blind'. Do it enough times and eventually you will hit something!
That was how it began. With the advent of technological advancement, the internet and email, the 4-1-9'ers have put the internet to work. Although emails are still clogging mailboxes, the latest move is to
send you a Personal Message on a forum such as this. Be warned.
More information can be found on the US Secret Service website:
4-1-9 or Advance Fee Fraud
McF