Online fraud
History and upbringing
This type of fraud appeared in the eighties, when the decline of the Nigerian oil companies began. At that time, a number of unemployed university students began to exploit the aspirations of some businessmen to invest in the Nigerian oil sector. Later, the scam started to take a different turn when the scammers started sending messages to different people trying to persuade them to invest in the oil sector and to send a certain amount of money in the hope of getting a (life deal) later. Currently, this type of scam is officially called 419 nigerian scam. Its main medium today is e-mail. There are other schools in this field, most notably the Russian school and the Spanish school called (the Spanish prisoner) and its idea is to send an e-mail and call someone and convince him that the caller is a very rich Spanish prisoner (millionaire) and that this prisoner needs about one hundred thousand dollars to bribe the prison officers. His release from prison will pay you back the amount twice as much.
Switching to international networks
This type of fraud turned into a profitable business, estimated at about one hundred million dollars in 1997, and lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Ansa Nolte, said that Internet fraud is currently one of the most important sources of Nigerian external income. The fraud networks are distributed around the world, especially in Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa and the Netherlands.
types of fraud
The types of fraud vary according to time, method, and quality. There is lottery fraud, in which a person is told that he won the lottery and all he has to do is send an amount of money to receive his prize. There is also a method (romantic fraud) by persuading the victim to find a lover for him in exchange for a sum of money. In addition to the method of doing good, by trying to persuade the victim to donate for humanitarian causes such as wars, epidemics and famines. And last but not least, there is a type of fraud that is not widespread in the Arab world, but it is based on persuading the victim that there is a hired killer who wants to kill the victim and that he has to pay a sum of money to pay the affliction and survive. There is also a way to contact institutions or banks and say that there is an explosive device and they have to pay to ensure that no blow up the place. Interestingly, he mentioned one of the funny ways in the scam, which is to meet the victim in one of the places and make him see a bag full of counterfeit dollars and convince him that it is real, but the problem is that each paper has a blue seal and this seal can only be removed with a kind of chemical solution, and this solution is 200 or 500 thousand dollars and so on. This method of swindling is called (blue dollars), and dozens of victims have been killed in the Arab world.
Invitation to visit Nigeria or South Africa
Fraudsters sometimes invite the victim to visit Nigeria or South Africa, and in this case they are exploited in the ugliest and dirtiest images. A Japanese businessman was kidnapped by Nigerian fraudsters in September 2008 and demanded a ransom of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A ransom estimated at 20 million euros, in addition to the kidnapping of another Romanian in 2001, and he was not released until after paying 500,000 dollars. This is in addition to the killing of a 29-year-old Greek businessman in 2004, another American, and another Norwegian who disappeared in South Africa in 1999 and is believed to have been liquidated. By these scammers. It is worth noting that one of the methods of fraud is to take the victim for a walk in the car to an area and after several miles other members of the gang attack the victim’s car and convince him that he has entered another country without a visa, so he must pay a sum of money to them to release him.
Psychological effects on the victims
Tens of thousands of people have fallen victim to fraud and the main feeling is the feeling of betrayal or rape, and the fact that this type of fraud may lead to psychological and neurological problems that may turn into physical diseases. There are cases in both Australia and America of victims of this type of fraud and they turned into fraudsters in turn and started practicing the same methods of African fraudsters who robbed them of everything they owned.
The worst of all of this
After the fraudsters rob the person to the fullest degree and take advantage of every penny in his pocket, the data of this person (from an email, phone number, etc.) is sold to another gang of fraudsters, which in turn contacts the same person trying to convince him that she will return all his money to him, but for an amount Simple money and the series continues.
Professional fraud
Fraudsters send you documents, which are fake documents with great perfection, including government papers, so you must be careful to ensure that the person does not fall for fraud. He once mentioned that these fraudsters have forged the signature of the Nigerian President personally. The latest fraud attempt is to send a message from a person who claims to be a great feudal lord Michael Kumalo and claims to be from Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe has confiscated all his money, but he has a bank balance in South Africa and is willing to give you $24 million if you send him $200,000.
Fighting and arrests
h In 2004 52 people were arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of belonging to fraud gangs, and in the same year a person was convicted in Australia for belonging to one of these gangs, and in June 2008 a person was convicted in America on the same charge of belonging to these Nigerian gangs. There is a lot of criticism directed at Nigeria for its leniency in the matter of prosecuting criminals and eliminating this phenomenon, mainly due to corruption and bribery.
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