Each year, scam emails con victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The most infamous of these emails originate in Nigeria—they’re known as “419” scams after a section of the Nigerian criminal code. In Scamorama, Eve Edelson explains how these fraud schemes work, and what’s being done to fight them.
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