When real estate agent Jennifer Caveness decided to sell her Huntington Beach town house recently, she listed the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property in the Multiple Listing Service, the traditional ...

2007-03-31 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Americans lost a record amount to Internet fraud schemes last year, and the notorious "Nigerian 419" scam is blamed for the largest individual losses. A government ...

I remember the first time I came across the Nigerian email scam -- I'd had a particularly unpredictable and eventful year bumming my way around the world and, when an email arrived announcing that a ...

Savvy Internet users don't bat an eye when they receive e-mails offering to make them a partner in shady money-laundering schemes. The venerable Nigerian 419 scam has been around for so long that it ...

2006-04-09 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Americans lost a record amount of money to Internet fraud last year, with the infamous Nigerian 419 scam nabbing the largest sums from individuals, according to ...

Editor’s note: Linda Markus Daniels is a founder of and principal in the Research Triangle Park law firm of Daniels Daniels & Verdonik, P.A. TechLaw is a regular weekly feature in LTW ...

According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research office with F-Secure, this latest scam preys on the fact that people who have already fallen for one con are quite likely to fall for another – which is the ...

On this week’s edition of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin discussed his email conversation with a scammer posing as Sepp Blatter. You can listen to that discussion by clicking on ...

I receive these scam e-mails periodically, but here is a variation you might find interesting. It is supposedly from the son of a dead human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who ...

This post has been noticed by some Nigerians and prompted a discussion about positive branding for Nigeria. Despite being ill-qualified, I have decided to enter into the discussion with a series of ...

This week on Security Levity… the third in a series of posts about spam in different cultures. This time: Nigeria, home of the 419 scam. Advance-fee fraud come-ons: we’ve all received them. Typically, ...