About three years ago, I received the first email from Nigerian scammers. They have different methods to introduce themselves. Some of them claim that they work on some Nigerian banks and need someone from another country to help them to transfer a huge amount of money. They say that the previous owner of the money has lost his/her life in a car accident or airplane crash and they couldn’t find any other member of family to give the money to him/her and….

Click here to reads some samples of the letters and stories they send to their potential victims:
http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/scams

What to do if you receive a Nigerian scam letter?
1- Do not respond to it.
2- Notify your own nation's national law enforcement agency and your own nation's foreign office.
3- File a complaint with the Nigerian embassy or high commission in your nation.
4- If the contact from the scammers was via email, write their email provider at their "abuse" address (abuse@yahoo.com, abuse@onebox.com etc.) And include the scam message with its headers; complain about the scam message; and ask that the account be shut down.

Why they focus on people who look for business opportunities or have internet business opportunity websites?
They know that people who look for business opportunities or have internet business opportunity websites are eager to make money. On the other hand, they know that making money is not easy and these people always look for a better way to make more money, faster and easier. So they will respond to scam letters more than the others.

Please prevent scammers!
If you promote a business on internet, you can easily help to prevent scammers to cheat more people. One of the best ways is placing a separate page on your

If you promote a MLM or affiliate program, you’d better to inform your referrals about scammers. Most of your referrals are new to internet and online business opportunities and so they can easily be cheated by scammers. This is your responsibility to educate them about scammers because you have referred them to the new world of internet with all its good and bad things.

Always keep yourself updated about the new ways that scammers use, their websites and everything related to them. Try to join work at home business opportunities forums like http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/forums and let others know about your experiences and also know about others experiences. Also try to take a look at article directories like http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/articles every now and then and learn about new scamming methods. Only if you know about them, you can easy distinguish and avoid them and also help the others to avoid them too.

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