Fraude
destinado a conseguir que una persona o grupo de personas entreguen dinero,
bajo falsas promesas de beneficios económicos (viajes, vacaciones, premios de
lotería, etc.).
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Deceptive,
uninvited contacts or promises designed to trick people into giving away their
money or your personal information. [CSS NZ:2011]
A type of advance
fee fraud originating from West Africa, so called because 419 is the section of
the Nigerian legal code that covers the crime.
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Schemes to
defraud consumers abound on the Internet. Among the most famous is the
Nigerian, or 419, scam; the number is a reference to the section of Nigerian
law that the scam violates. Although this con has been used with both fax and
traditional mail, it has been given new life by the Internet. In the scheme, an
individual receives an e-mail asserting that the sender requires help in
transferring a large sum of money out of Nigeria or another distant country.
Usually, this money is in the form of an asset that is going to be sold, such
as oil, or a large amount of cash that requires laundering to conceal its
source; the variations are endless, and new specifics are constantly being
developed. The message asks the recipient to cover some cost of moving the
funds out of the country in return for receiving a much larger sum of money in
the near future. Should the recipient respond with a check or money order, he
is told that complications have developed; more money is required. Over time,
victims can lose thousands of dollars that are utterly unrecoverable.
Encyclopedia
Britannica.
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