The Nigerian Advance Fee Scam (also known as the 4-1-9 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, the Spanish prisoner scam, the black money scam, the Russian/Ukranian scam) has been around since the 1980s and is estimated to gross hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Bill Gray, a special agent with the Oregon Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Division, said the scam that Janella Spears fell (see story on page 1 and below) causes more losses…