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2. Emmanuel Nwude - Wikipedia

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   Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest, between 1995 and 1998.

3. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...

4. Hushpuppi - Wikipedia

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   11 years. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (born 11 October 1982), commonly known as Hushpuppi, Hush, or Ray Hushpuppi is a Dubai-based Nigerian Instagram influencer, self-acclaimed real estate mogul and convicted felon. [1] He was sentenced in the United States to 11 years for conspiracy to launder money obtained from business email compromise frauds and ...

5. Romance Scams: 7 Warning Signs and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   5 .They Can’t Visit, Call, Video Call or Send Many Pictures. Since most scammers are using a fake profile or data stolen from another person, they can’t visit, video call or send photos easily ...

6. Nigerian letter scams are whimsical in thought, but remain a ...

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   Nigerian Letter Scams prey on various human emotions – greed, ego, desperation, and/or the desire to be a hero.

7. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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   Scammers are very adept at knowing how to "play" their victims – sending love poems, sex games in emails, building up a "loving relationship" with many promises of "one day we will be married". Scammers ask their victims many questions, but share little about themselves. They often shower the victims with compliments.

8. Beware the Nigerian Landlord Scam - AOL

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   Perpetuating his country's unfortunate association with internet scams, a Nigerian man has turned to a new source for ill-gotten money: home renters. No tall tales of fake Nigerian royalty or ...

9. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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   Today scam letters are a general part of electronic life, ending up in mailboxes in hordes. Types Lottery scam letter. Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money ...