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Posted by Rick Merrill on 10/21/22 11:55
Steve Guidry wrote:
> Oh yeah. I get that one all the time.
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> I just never heard it called "the 419" scam . . .
It's called "419" after the area code of Nigeria. The official
technical description is "advance fee scan", but the slang term
goes back hundreds of years: "pidgeon drop" and it was illustrated in
the movie "The Sting".
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