I can't recount the many times I got this e-mail from someone in Nigeria who needs a contact overseas to take out millions of dollars from Nigeria to a US account. I mean, the fact that these type of scams continue circulating, means it must be working for them! Who (In the right mind) is willing to go through this? Whoever is behind it, fake documents, letters, etc to convince the victim. It's more… this scam proved to be deadly when in 1995, an American was murdered in Nigeria while pursuing this scam and a numbers of others reported missing Source
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Those Nigerians used to be the kings of spam a few years ago but I think the Russians have taken over that. When I hear "Nigeria" now the first thing I think about was those spam emails asking for money or saying that I got large sums of money and they needed my personal info to transfer it.
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