Fraude
destinado a conseguir que una persona o grupo de personas entreguen dinero,
bajo falsas promesas de beneficios económicos (viajes, vacaciones, premios de
lotería, etc.).
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Deceptive, uninvited
contacts or promises designed to trick people into giving away their money or
your personal information. [CSS NZ:2011]
A type of advance fee fraud
originating from West Africa, so called because 419 is the section of the
Nigerian legal code that covers the crime.
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Schemes to defraud consumers
abound on the Internet. Among the most famous is the Nigerian, or 419, scam;
the number is a reference to the section of Nigerian law that the scam
violates. Although this con has been used with both fax and traditional mail,
it has been given new life by the Internet. In the scheme, an individual
receives an e-mail asserting that the sender requires help in transferring a
large sum of money out of Nigeria or another distant country. Usually, this
money is in the form of an asset that is going to be sold, such as oil, or a
large amount of cash that requires laundering to conceal its source; the
variations are endless, and new specifics are constantly being developed. The
message asks the recipient to cover some cost of moving the funds out of the
country in return for receiving a much larger sum of money in the near future.
Should the recipient respond with a check or money order, he is told that
complications have developed; more money is required. Over time, victims can
lose thousands of dollars that are utterly unrecoverable.
Encyclopedia Britannica.