In an Advance Fee Scam, the victim is convinced to advance money to the scam artist with the lure of delivering goods, services or financial gains that eventually fail to materialize.  Scammers operate Advance Fee fraud in a variety of ways. The most well known being lottery, inheritance and other fund transfer scams also known as Nigerian 419 scams. Due to the explosion of information available in the digital media, the people in western countries are well aware and hence are able to fend off Nigerian 419 scam attempts, which now seem to be primarily targeted at the third world countries.

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