The Internet Security landscape is littered with the metaphorical bodies of those who routinely fall for the popular ruses perpetrated by malware authors, phishing scams and 419'ers. Much of the badware out there is reliant on convincing the target (or mark) to undertake some type of action, education is therefore a very important weapon in the fight against 'cybercrime'.

The 411 scam is generally known to most of the world as Advance-fee fraud, or a 419 Scam. Traditionally 419 scams originate from Nigeria, and the name refers to the section under the Nigerian criminal code that such a crime applies to. Quite when the term 411 scam became popular is unclear, but the American Dialect society has traced the term '419 Fraud' back to 1992.

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