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Some investors have hired private investigators in Nigeria or have personally travelled to Nigeria, without ever retrieving their money. One American was murdered in Nigeria while pursuing his lost money. In February 2003, a scam victim from the Czech Republic shot and killed an official at the Nigerian embassy.

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SCAM is any unsolicited, off-topic, nonpersonal email we receive, particularly recurring email advertising products or Websites in which we have never expressed an interest. We explicitly include in this definition "e-newsletters" and other mailings to which person A can subscribe person B without B's knowledge.

The Nigerian 419 scam is named after the 4-1-9 penal code, the 419 scam is an 'advance fee' scam. The annual loss associated with the 419 Nigerian scams exceeds US $200 million per annum around the world. This is as per the statistics released by the FBI. Losses in South Africa alone are estimated to exceed R100 million per annum. The most common forms of these counterfeit business proposals fall into following categories: purchase of goods, conversion of real estate, transfer of funds from over invoiced contracts, sale of crude oil at below market price, payment of money from wills and contact fraud.

One goal of scam baiting techniques is just to waste a 419 scammer's time. If the scam artist is talking to a baiter they are not talking with a possible victim. These way of scam baitings are referred to as "straight baits".Many scam baiters would also claim to have sent the scammers to a Western Union office frequently to collect the allegedly sent money or to get scammers to book hotels for them. Others have had the criminals turn up at hotels, docks and the airports expecting to greet their intended victims.