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Loading ...The traditional Nigerian “advance fee” 419 scam has been adapting over the past few years as more people have become aware of the basic scam. In the last few years, a popular variation on the traditional 419 scam was to buy something on eBay, send a fake check for too much money and then get the seller to send back both the item and the excess cash. Since the check would “clear” within five days, the person would believe it was valid. It was only a few weeks later when the checks were officially declared counterfeit that the scammed person realized what had happened. It appears that more people have figured out this scam as well, so the 419 scammers are now moving on to postal money orders — which had been considered very difficult to counterfeit. However, it appears that a bunch of scammers have figured it out, because apparently postal money order scams are one of the fastest growing scams going around these days. Either way, it makes you wonder what anyone is doing sending any money to a stranger overseas.
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