"419" or "advance fee" scam email letters collected between 2002-2014

The Email scam letters collection was acquired by Stanford Libraries bibliographer, Karen Fung from email she received. The letters, a type of Advance Fee Fraud, are also sometimes called the "419" scam after the section of the Nigerian penal code which covers the crime. This type of fraud is believed to have originated in the 18th century. The fraudster tricks the victim into paying money up front to supposedly receive a future, larger payoff.

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