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419 Scam
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The advance fee fraud, known colloquially as the 419 scam, is a form of Internet fraud commonly associated with Nigeria (hence its alternative name, the Nigerian Prince scam). The character is contacted by someone who claims (in suspiciously shaky English) to have a large sum of money which is rightfully his but which he cannot access for various reasons (sealed account, locked trust fund, etc.), and he needs the mark's help to be able to access it. If he helps out, he'll get a substantial share of the money, which could be millions of dollars. To do this, the scammer typically needs the mark's own bank account to help him transfer the money, and he needs some of the mark's own money in advance to help authorize the transfer, bribe officials, or do anything else the scammer can think of. But the money doesn't exist; once the scammer gets the mark's money or access to his bank account, he cuts off all contact. It's basically the "Spanish Prisoner" scam for the Internet age. As a trope, though, it's not usually used as a way to drive the overall plot like the Spanish Prisoner scam is; instead, it usually goes to show how stupid or gullible a character is for falling for it. The common subversion is thus the money being real and the character unluckily passing up a reward from an actual wealthy Nigerian prince. A particularly clever character might become a "scambaiter", who pretends to fall for the scam and strings the scammer along until he gets him into a humiliating or compromising situation. In Real Life, the term derives from Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which prohibits fraud and details the punishments and penalties that await fraudsters. However, it's used to refer to all scams of this kind, even when they don't involve Nigeria or bank accounts at all. The Real Life workings of this trope are explained in greater detail on the Analysis page. But to be a trope, it helps to use shorthand, and that's why it nearly always involves a Nigerian with a big bank account he can't access. This Nigerian is also often a prince, even though Nigeria is a republic and not a monarchy (not that the mark would be expected to know this), although it does have traditional ceremonial "princes" (not that the mark would be expected to know that, either). Considered a Dead Horse Trope in modern works, mostly because there are more subversions of the trope than actual straight uses; case in point, the image for this page is also a subversion. Compare Clickbait Gag, a trope that parodies a later manipulative internet tactic meant to make money off of people's gullibility. Has nothing to do with scams coming from Area Code 419, which covers the metropolitan area of Toledo, Ohio, but scam calls could originate from there. |
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A strip from Real Life Comics has Mae Dean looking through her email, which is full of these scams. The email is asking for a monetary donation because the daughter (or other relation) of the sender is suffering from some terminal illness. Except with each scam email she reads, the sickness gets progressively less severe and the asking amount for the donation progressively more, with the last one asking for a $100 donation for a cold. | |
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An installment of The Cyanide & Happiness Show, "Junk Mail", runs with the comedic premise of "what if all the crappy spam email you ignore was real?" After the main character starts actually answering these emails, and quadrupled the length of his penis and gotten incredibly rich from working home, he naturally gets one of these emails, and moments later is partying with a Nigerian man in royal regalia. | |
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An arc in The Night Shift shows Olafur falling for one and continuing to believe in it despite everyone around him pointing out that it's a scam. The scam artist eventually shows up at Olafur's workplace, having already flown to Iceland with Olafur's money, and Daniel gets him arrested. | |
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Ragged Dick has a nineteenth century example. A scammer approaches Dick, claiming he found a large wallet in the street that he doesn't have time to return to its rightful owner because he has to visit his sick family. He offers to let Dick return the wallet and take the reward if he will pay the scammer 20 dollars. Dick, realizing the wallet contains only worthless paper, gives the scammer a counterfeit bill and runs off with the wallet. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Sam is too clever for the scammers: | |
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Endless Sky: As you walk through the spaceport, a voice from a nearby TV screen suddenly talks to you (yes, you) and introduces himself as Mr. Smith, kindly asking to donate 200 thousands credits to process a rich inheritance from a recently deceased warlord Limping Pappa and be paid a sizable part of it in return, in what looks suspiciously like a scam advertisement. You may accept to do it, or call it a scam and walk away. It is in fact a scam, and you may have overheard NPC merchants talking about not falling for inheritance scams before. | |
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Dr. Phil has had people who fell for these scams on the show. One was a woman who fell in love with a Nigerian scam artist who asked her for thousands of dollars. The man claimed to be a veteran and fed her all kinds of information that turned out to be false. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "The Princess Guide", Moe falls for one such scam, and when he finds out that Homer is caring for a Nigerian princess while her father is inking a deal with Mr. Burns, Moe assumes her brother is the prince who scammed him. | |
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The series Scamalot is about its host James' response to such scams. | |
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The song by MC Frontalot in the page quote is about someone who's a little too eager to get a 419 email. See also here. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: "Scam" explains how claiming to be from Nigeria in these scams is a way to weed out potential non-stupid responders. | |
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"A Thief in Ni-Moya", a short story in the Majipoor Series, has a woman swindled out of her savings by people claiming these are fees for inheriting a large estate. | |
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Ratbert fell for one in a Dilbert strip. Since the banking information he provided was "My bank is a tube sock that fell behind the dryer", the man on the other end of the scheme couldn't steal any money from him. | |
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The epilogue of Halting State features an apparent 419 scam email addressed to the book's villain. Given what we know at the end of the book, the email could be taken at face value, indicating that the villain stashed his ill-gotten gains in a Nigerian bank. | |
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Ghosts (US): Pete, Trevor and Flower fall for one such scam in "Whodunnit" after Pete, who got an e-mail account made so he could get the Reader's Digest joke of the day, got a message from a "Nigerian prince" and they wired money from Sam and Jay's bank account. It's only after Trevor Googled "Nigerian Prince" that they realize what they did; fortunately, Sam got a fraud alert on her phone and canceled the transaction. | |
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Texts from Superheroes: This entry sees Thor discover that all of Black Panther's (an actual African prince) emails have been sent to his spam folder for this reason. He also discovers a bunch of other "Nigerian princes" require his aid, so he and Panther decide to send them Tony Stark's bank information to help them out. Needless to say, Tony isn't happy. | |
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Referenced twice in The Karma of Lies: Adrien defends his refusal to do anything about Lila scamming his classmates by insisting that she's not doing anything really bad, like "convincing them to send their money to one of those Nigerian prince email scams." The irony of this is that Lila is employing similar tactics with her Celebrity Lies... for instance, getting all of her friends to donate to a Fake Charity supposedly run by an Italian fashion mogul. Lila also compares this to her own methods, noting that her more over-the-top claims deliberately strain credibility in this vein in order to see who falls for them, allowing her to identify both the easiest marks and which ones require a little more finesse. Most of her classmates fall hook, line and sinker for her Too Good to Be True claims; Adrien, meanwhile, falls into the category of "knows that she's a liar, but thinks he's too smart to be tricked." |
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake is astonished to learn that his dimwitted fellow detective Scully has fallen for over twenty such scams. | |
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Frenchie and Oluwande on Our Flag Means Death manage to pull this off hundreds of years before the creation of the Internet by posing as an Egyptian prince and his viceroy at a party full of gullible aristocrats. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon gets all his items hijacked from his World of Warcraft account by a hacker, and Raj finds someone online "from Nigeria" who claims that he can retrieve all the items "for a fee". | |
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Something Awful's Rich Kyanka did his own bit of scam baiting once (apparently genuine), just because it's the kind of thing he does when he gets stupid emails. | |
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Irregular Webcomic!: The "Nigerian Finance Minister" theme places the actual guy in charge of Nigerian finance in the position these letters tend to spell out. He's genuinely looking to get his money transferred, but his honest plea naturally ends up looking just like the classic scam pitch and getting about the same response. Even when he hires William Shakespeare to write them. A completely separate "Nigerian Prince" scam tried to pin everything on not-Steve-Irwin. Fortunately, Jane Goodall was able to prove in court that not only was he not king of Nigeria, but Nigeria is a republic with no royal family. |
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DuckTales (2017): According to Word of God, whenever Gladstone Gander receives these emails, they turn out to be legitimate. "He has aided several real Deposed Nigerian Princes and Stranded Russian Astronauts and been handsomely rewarded for it." | |
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Rusty and Co., in its usual Dungeon Punk style, had Calamitus scammed by one such letter in Critical Missives after he began to look like a genuine threat rather than a comically incompetent goofball. | |
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xkcd: This strip has an odd example, in that Black Hat Guy is writing one to his own diary. A series of political fundraising e-mails ends with one which claims to be from a Nigerian prince who is running for Congress. |
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In the Big Hero 6: The Series episode "De-Based", Fred receives an e-mail from the royal family of "Spamivia". Clicking the link downloads a virus to Basemax that convinces her she's the Queen of Spamivia, and anyone who says she isn't is a traitor. | |
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The Umbrella Academy (2019): Diego calls Luther out for trusting Sloane, a member of the enemy group, citing the time he trusted a "Nigerian prince" when they were younger. | |
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In The Venture Brothers, Sgt. Hatred hints that falling for one of these might have been the final straw that caused his wife to leave him. | |
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In Jesus on Thyface, Jesus receives a message from the son of a former deceased president who knows the location of King Solomon's Mines and needs someone to help him assist in transferring the funds. | |
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The Bedfellows: Sheen prevents Fatigue from becoming a victim of this in one strip. Subverted, as there really was a prince after all. | |
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The bots of the Jolly Roger Telephone Company were designed to respond to telemarketers, however, some enterprising scam-baiters figured out that they might be used to engage with this routine as well. They would trick the scammer by responding to their e-mail saying that they don't like to deal over e-mail and only want to respond by phone and then give out the number for one of these bots. Eventually, Jolly Roger creator Roger Anderson picked up on this and designed a couple of bots which are specifically designed to respond to this scam. They will do stuff like saying that they're worried about it being a scam and need reassurance, repeat that they only want to deal by phone and not e-mail and pretend to start reading off a confirmation number, only to stop before they can finish. | |
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User Friendly: Pitr receives a 419 scam e-mail. He uses his wits and his hacking skills to screw the scammer over. | |
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A sketch on That Mitchell and Webb Look had three wealthy brothers phoning up members of the public to give them a free "massive yacht," provided they paid off a few legal fees. Naturally, they were quite confused that nobody was interested in their free yachts despite their "warm and reassuring" (that is: robotic and automated-sounding) voices and the insignificance of the legal fees when compared to the value of a massive yacht. In a later episode, the same characters were excited to give the millionth visitor to their website a free massive yacht, but since the popup link they personally sent looked suspiciously like a scam this too was rejected, much to their shock. |
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Mass Effect 2 gives Shepard an e-mail account to receive assorted plot-related messages and information, but which also suffers from the usual amount of standard spam e-mail. Apparently in the Mass Effect verse, the standard spiel involves Prothean artifacts from Ilos being stuck in customs, with a cut of the profits offered to the one who puts up the front money required to get them cleared. It shows up again in Mass Effect: Andromeda, where it seems to be an import from the Milky Way and targets a party member. Based on conversations you can hear, they may have fallen for it. | |
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In the tenth and final episode of the first season of Better Call Saul, during the scams Jimmy and Marco are pulling, Jimmy tells one victim that there is a 27-year-old Nigerian prince named Idi Abbassi who is worth "conservatively, 400 million dollars." Unfortunately for this prince, the dictatorship of Equatorial Uqbar Orbis is detaining him on trumped-up charges; the Abbassi family will reward whomever helps them get their boy back, but the "hitch" is that the banks have frozen their assets. | |
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Michael Scott on The Office has been mentioned to support "about twenty Nigerian princesses". | |
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One Knights of the Dinner Table strip deals with one of the Knights receiving a Nigerian banking scam email. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The direct-to-DVD film EZ Money is based around this; the film's tagline is "The Nigerian e-mail scam gets scammed." | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Prendrick's Planetary Parlour", when the station house gets a Prendrick Portal, which is an Edwardian e-mail and chatroom system, Inspector Brakenreid almost falls for this, until Prendrick points out that the sending portal is in Niagra, not Nigeria. | |
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In an early episode of 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan nonchalantly mentions that he recently received actual money from a Nigerian prince he agreed to help out, and now he's wondering what to use it for. | |
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Referenced in the Red vs. Blue PSA "Real Life vs. The Internet", comparing getting mail from a mailbox vs. e-mail: | |
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In 1000 Ways to Die, a Nigerian con artist scams a poor schmuck into giving him his whole life savings. When the victim ultimately realizes he was scammed, he angrily tracks down the con artist and ends up accidentally killing him by driving a door hook into the con artist's eye. | |
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CollegeHumor did a sketch with the twist being that the Nigerian prince funds really were legit, only for the email to be deleted by a jaded college student. | |
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One vignette in Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes is a typical 419 e-mail, adjusted for the setting — the sender claims to be the widow of the former head of state of Thailand, deposed after the Pacific War. It's followed by a message from the recipient's AI assisitant saying that the sender has been traced if he wants to report it. | |
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Right at the first issue of Gotham City Sirens, we have Catwoman wondering what Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn did to the money stolen from Hush that she gave them. Ivy's part was sent to a reforestation project; Harley's part, well... | |
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In the seventh episode of the fifth season of Malcolm in the Middle, Reese mentions he was "gonna invest [his money] with this Nigerian general who's been sending [him] emails." | |
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The first Futurama feature film, Bender's Big Score, centers on a group of scammers who con the Planet Express business and then use that as a base to scam the whole of Earth. Hermes is onto them from the start, but every other character falls for it at least once. Professor Farnsworth catches on that the crew is being scammed... then falls for a claim he won the Spanish National Lottery and is tricked into signing over his company. Weirdly, Dr. Zoidberg claims halfway through the film that he actually did get the money. Eventually the scammers are defeated by Bender, who claims he's been working the long con all along. | |
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Wally and Osborne briefly references this here. | |
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In the episode "Cherry Bomb" of Friendship is Witchcraft, Applejack goes out of town to retrieve two free iPod Nanos offered through a popup window. As her train is leaving, Pinkie reminds her to "Say hi to the Nigerian prince." As everypony turns to her in confusion, she says, "What? He owes me money." | |
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In Our Dumb World, the first page on Nigeria is taken up by a poorly-spelled e-mail letter purporting to be from the "People of Nigeria" (nigeria_people2007@yahoo.com), begging for foreign aid and promising to provide "15% (US$26,250,000,000) of the total sums of our GDP" to anyone willing to "fly to our country, preferably with 10,000 of your closest associates and confidantes, and bring guns." Recipients who do not wish to come to Nigeria but still want to help are asked to reply with their contact details and bank account numbers. A sidebar illustrates the educational system which teaches Nigerians how to send mass e-mail in the "Computers 419" course. | |
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As seen in the page image, Bart Simpson receives a "letter from a Nigerian prince" promising a portion of the prince's riches if he sends payment. He dismisses it by tossing it over his shoulder, meanwhile, back in Nigeria, the prince wonders why nobody ever wants to share in his fortune. | |
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While hosting SNL in 2008, Anne Hathaway joked about her ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, going to prison for fraud, then gushes about her new boyfriend, a Nigerian prince whom she met on the Internet. | |
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In one FoxTrot strip, Roger warns Andy to not respond to an email from a Nigerian widow offering 10 million for $500... because he's currently waiting on 20 million from a Ugandan for $350. | |
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Invoked in the pilot episode of Leverage, duly titled "The Nigerian Job". The mark is told that he's receiving an offer for a contract with the Nigerian government, but is suspicious in part because "it's like those email scams with Nigerian bank fraud letters." Which was exactly what Nate wanted him to think. In fact, the men the mark met really were Nigerian officials, and the mark ends up in serious hot water with the FBI. | |
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You can find 419 emails in computer mailboxes in Deus Ex: Human Revolution; although they mostly only appear in home PCs, there are a few on the computers of offices and institutions, and you can even find other emails lamenting how the spammers were able to get hold of a corporate email account including one instance in the top secret Omega Ranch. | |
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Bob Howard of The Laundry Files recalls in a footnote the one time he decided to respond to one of the innumerable 419 messages he gets in his inbox. He doesn't go into much detail, aside from noting that Laundry Internal Security were less than amused and made him give back their bank. | |
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Person of Interest turned this into a multi-level Mugging the Monster. Some gangsters tried to pull this on Leon Tao. However, since he's a very skilled forensic accountant, he was able to steal from them. They were unamused and showed up to kill him, and to his immense surprise were actually Nigerian. Unfortunately for them, he's a recurring number on Team Machine, so Reese shows up to save him. | |
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On Henry Danger, Piper asks her father for a thousand dollars as she just got an e-mail from a foreign prince, saying anyone who shares that can get a million dollars. Naturally, her father thinks it's a scam and tells Piper if she wants the money, earn it herself. Piper spends the episode on various nutty schemes and jobs and is close to raising the money. Her dad tells his wife he'll wait for her to almost have it all before telling her the whole thing is a fraud. At which point, a news story breaks on how the prince is real, sent these e-mails out and the only person who responded with the money is Piper's arch-rival from school who is not only now rich but dating the prince. Piper gives her dad an ugly look as he just has an "oops?" expression. | |
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In Season 2, Episode 2 of Flight of the Conchords, Murray invests the band's last remaining emergency funds with with a Nigerian man named Nigel Seladu, who contacted him by e-mail. While Bret and Jermaine are confident it's a scam, it turns out to be legitimate, and the band uses the money to pay their rent and bail themselves out of jail for prostitution. | |
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Judge Judy sadly deals with people who have been scammed, even into 2019. One example is where a contractor (the defendant) was asked to rebuild a driveway for the owner of a house. However, the contractor was the victim of a scammer who was asking for the driveway to be rebuilt. One huge red flag that should have tipped off the defendant was that the scammer asked to be wired $300 before paying the defendant $6,000. The defendant not only lost $300 but went over to the plaintiff's house to do the contracting work, destroying part of the driveway before the real home owner (the plaintiff) came and stopped them. The plaintiff was suing the defendant for rebuilding the driveway. Judge Judy could hardly get though the case without laughing the whole time over how stupid the defendant was and awarded the plaintiff the money to rebuild the driveway. | |
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iCarly (2021): Freddie mentions that he once fell for the Nigerian Prince scam. Hence why he thinks the delivery girl who wants his phone number is trying to steal his identity. | |
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In Monster Hunter Vendetta, this and other Internet scams are mentioned as being sent by actual mythical trolls. | |
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In Doom³, if you took the PDA from Larry Kaczynski, one of his messages contains a 419 scam written by a certain "John Okonkwo" (included in this link here). | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Subverted in "The Autobiography" when a message from a Nigerian prince shows up in Penny's email inbox. Penny deletes it, but it turns out the offer is genuine and she misses out on a big payday. | |
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Etra chan saw it!: Tachibana receives an email message from an alleged high-ranking Nigerian official who promises him to double the amount of the money he lent to them; obviously, this turns out to be a scam, and Akamatsu and other people also fell for it. It is revealed that Hiiragi manipulated Tachibana, Akamatsu and others into getting scammed by sending them the scammer's email during their high school reunion as revenge for bullying him and not helping him from being bullied, respectively. | |
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The Veronica Mars episode "The Wrath of Con" features two college students pulling off a scam based on this in order to raise money for the video game they're making. The "sealed account" is the students' trust fund. | |
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The protagonist of Zoo City creates these scams to pay off her remaining debts from her junkie days. When she's finally out of debt, she informs all her remaining victims that it's a fraud, then falsely implicates her ex-boyfriend (whom she despises) in running the scam. | |
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Hawke in Dragon Age II gets one in the form of an actual letter which is ostensibly from the Seneschal serving Starkhaven's recently-overthrown Vael family. He promises a sum of 10,000 sovereigns if Hawke were to open a bank account in Antiva with 100 sovereigns deposited to make the account viable. Incidentally, the last son of said Vael family is a (Downloadable Content) party member. | |
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In A Young Girl's Delinquency Record, while touring Africa, Tanya and Visha meet with a man who claims to be the exiled king of a gold-rich nation seeking their help to return to assume the throne. Tanya, for shits and giggles, decides to help him. He's 100% legit. | |
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Least I Could Do: Rayne gets an e-mail with this sort of scam in this strip and decides to go to Nigeria to meet his princess and claim his inheritance. | |
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Akata Witch has an offhand comment that Leopard people run magical 419 scams stealing from peoples' accounts. | |
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In Hypnospace Outlaw, a Hypnospace user sends the player character an e-mail. He claims that a rich person will grant him a submarine if he gathers enough Hypnocoin in time, which would allow him to hunt for treasure that he'd really share with the donors. He's serious. If you choose to donate to him, he actually acquires a submarine and sets off to find the treasure; he posts his coordinates to Hypnospace, which end up being his last known location before going missing. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Scammed Yankees" centers on Carter and Peter falling for this scam. | |
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Doug has the Ponzi Puzzle Sweepstakes, which is an advance fee fraud variant despite the name. Lured with an enormous (alleged) payout, contestants are given ever-harder puzzles in exchange for ever-increasing entry fees at each level. Doug finally gives up after seeing a cart of entries (at a level that sounded really really exclusive and close to the end) at the post office. | |
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How I Met Your Mother had Katy Perry as a guest star who played an extremely gullible girl who fell for one of these. | |
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In one of the Grantville Gazette short stories, this scam is applied against members of minor nobility by some who were familiar with it from uptime 20th century literature, with said nobility being too concerned about their reputation to try to assist catching the perpetrator. | |
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The game RE: Prince of Nigeria is mainly about a girl who does not get that she is being scammed and ends up falling in love with this supposed "Prince", played for laughs. In fact, from the get-go she doesn't care one iota about the money and is only interested in pursuing romance with this supposed prince. | |
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In Crusader Kings II, you can be contacted by someone claiming to represent an Abyssinian prince. If you have the "Scholar" trait, you can reply by pointing out that the names in the message aren't Abyssinian. | |
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Layer Cake: Jimmy Price lost his fortune in a far more elaborate version: a Foreign Minister from some unnamed African country came to the UK shopping for investors, boasting of the country's vast mineral reserves and promising huge returns. He didn't mention that the country's communist insurgents were poised to overthrow the current regime, so he just stashed all his gains in his Swiss Bank Account and broke off all contact with his investors. | |
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