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Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.
joe@oregon.uoregon.edu
We have been seeing a growing number of UO users receive so-called "4-1-9"
or "Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud" solicitations by email.
These scams often promise to share millions of dollars from "over-invoiced
contracts" or some other financial source, typically Nigerian, if only
some money for processing fees (or for taxes, attorneys costs, transaction fees,
etc.) can be covered--temporarily, of course--by you.
Do not get taken in by these scams. If a deal seems too good to be true, it
is-- particularly in cases like these. There are no millions of dollars
waiting for you; you are simply the target of a con artist.
For more information about "4-1-9" or "Nigerian Advance
Fee Fraud" see the following websites:
http://www.treas.gov/usss/index.htm?alert419.htm&1
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/naffpub.pdf
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/08/07/419scams/index.html