This nation has the dubious distinction as the birthplace of the Internet e-mail scams known as 419 Fraud
The so-called 419 scam, named after the article in Nigeria's criminal 
code ... earn it the dubious distinction of the world's second most corrupt country 
after... [DOC] [TLE] Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams - WSJ [PAR] Jan 3, 2009 ... Another large-scale scandal that some have called a Ponzi scheme involved ... 
the scam in Nigeria, the country from which many of these Internet messages 
originate.