419
Today I have read in the newspaper that there is a new email scam floating around the internet. Apparently somebody pretends to be an American soldier that has some nukes and $25,000,000 in cash and needs to hide them. If you help him you can get 20% of the profits.These kinds of scam are called 419 scam/fraud or the Nigerian Scam. Because it is called the Nigerian scam this does not necessarely mean that those responsable for the scam are really Nigerians. It is called Nigerian scam because of the...