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A Five Billion US$ as of 1996, much more now worldwide Scam which has run since the early 1980s under Successive Governments of Nigeria. It is also referred to as Advance Fee Fraud, 419 Fraud FourOneNine after a formerly relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria, and The Nigerian Connection mostly in Europe. However, it is usually called plain old 419 even by the Nigerians themselves. In brief, 419 is a subclassification of Advance Fee Fraud crime in which the perpetrators are West Africans, primarily Nigerians, operating globally from Nigeria and elsewhere.

 

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