Advance Fee Fraud Awareness
Many individuals
and businesses around the globe have fallen victim
to various financial scams popularly known as “Advance Fee Fraud”, “Nigerian
Advance Fee Fraud” or “419 Fraud”.
Originally, the Nigeria-based scam artists
were targeting foreign crooked businessmen and women
around the world seeking to feast on unbridle corrupt
practices in oil and other businesses in Nigeria. However,
there are reports about genuine businessmen and women,
and other investors who may have fallen victims too.
Comprehensive studies have not been
done to fully determine the overall consequences of these
scams on the society-at-large. However, it has been determined
that those are form of economic terrorism aimed at collapsing
the capitalist businesses and financial systems, apart
from dispossessing the victims of their hard earned money.
Those scams also scare away the genuine investors from
investing in many African countries, thereby contributing
to the underdevelopment woes of the continent.
Governments around the world have raised
alarm over the menace of these brands of fraud and also
have indicated commitment to eradicate them.
The scam artists appear to have expanded
their scope of targets to include foreign-based Nigerians,
as well.
Recently,
large number of Nigerians residing outside the country
have fallen victim to all sorts of scams perpetrated
by relatives, friends and other business suitors applying
the ‘419’ mechanisms.
The methods applied by the con-artists
may vary, but the end results are always the same - the
victims are deceived into losing large sums of money
or properties worth large amount of money.
Africans In America, Inc. has developed
and adopted tested and effective formulas for the victims
of various sorts of scams to fight back and recover their
loss.
Our Advance Fee Fraud Awareness (AFFA)
Program is designed to identify the methods of the scams;
and to locate the artists in their hideouts including
the urban and the remote villages with view to recover
lost items and put this economic terrorism to stop.
Africans In America, Inc. is currently
studying the links between Human Trafficking and Advance
Fee Fraud.
Note:
The criminal syndicates in Africa reportedly tend
to work in tandem with some corrupt law enforcement
officers. Victims could strangely be framed-up with
spurious allegations and charges as a ploy to force
them to drop their cases and to intimidate other victims
from seeking justice, if cases are not properly handled.
