AFRO-NETS> Warning: Fake request for Urgent Assistance (2)

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Warning: Fake request for Urgent Assistance (2)
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Hello all,

Thanks Dieter. This is called an advanced fee fraud or 419 in Nige-
ria. The request has surfaced here in Harvard University and a number 
of other institutions in the United States. It has been making the 
rounds in the United States since the 1990s but now the internet has 
provided another channel to reach a wider audience.

Never respond to such request as advised by the moderator, unless you 
want to reap where you did not sow. A lot of people have been de-
frauded in the past a situation that has been a major source of con-
cern to the Nigerian government.

Akin Jimoh
Program Director
Development Communications (Devcoms)
mailto:devcoms.mrac@usa.net

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