What is advance fee fraud?
Advance fee fraud is when you (the victim) fork out money in anticipation of some (imaginary) benefit, such as inheriting money from an imaginary person, winning an imaginary lotto which you didn’t enter, skimming imaginary public funds (shame on you!), helping an imaginary company process imaginary payments by receiving their rubber checks and sending them your (real) money. The only real money is yours, and the many variations on this scam all involve you losing it. The best-known Nigerian variant on advance fee fraud is called “419”.
