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Updated January 2026: This guide has been enhanced with real data from ScamWarners’ fraud database, which has documented advance fee fraud since 2007. 419 fraud – also called advance fee fraud or Nigerian scams – remains one of the most persistent internet scams. Named after the section of Nigeria’s criminal code that addresses fraud, these […]