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Internet Fraud Lurks in Your Inbox -
Danger is lurking in your email. Based on consumers’ reports to NCL’s Internet Fraud
Watch (IFW) program last year, many dubious offers, including those made for the fastest growing Internet fraud,
Nigerian money offers, come by email. Nigerian money offers are the fastest growing Internet fraud reported to the IFW,
increasing 900 percent from 2000 to 2001. Typically, the message comes from someone in an African country who
claims to have amassed a fortune and wants to transfer it to your bank account for safekeeping. In some of the most
frequently reported Internet frauds, many of the offers came by email: 97 percent of Nigerian money offers; 24 percent of
work-at-home schemes; 28 percent of bogus credit card offers; and 36 percent of fraudulent business opportunities and
franchises.
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