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Have you been seeing some junk or unsolicited messages in your inbox? It could be a scam. Here are top tricks scammers use to devour their prey.

1. Request for Affiliation:

   Nigerian scammers use the word affiliation to catch their prey. For e.g. they will ask you to partner with them and send relief materials to help the poor, instead of helping the poor as they said, they will channel the whole materials into their pocket.

2. Help for Benefit in Return:

   This is another most important trick a scammer uses. This method is mostly used by a Nigerian scammer to send unsolicited mails to you asking you to help them in return for a substantial amount of money.

3. Transfer of Funds:

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   They ask you to give your account details so that they can transfer certain amount of funds to it. When all this is given they start to remove and/or empty your account.

4. Lottery:

   This is another way Nigerian use to defraud people. They will send you a message, telling you that you have won a lottery you didn’t even play, nor know how it came about.

5. Employment:

   This another brain teasing scam, they will send you a message telling you of a wonderful job in a wonderful place. They will ask you to send some money to them to process some document for you to be able to get the job which involves a juicy amount of money.

6. Credit Cards:

   This is the most popular chat room fraud. They collect your credit card details, use the whole amount that is in the card, and even leaves you owing.

7. Investment Letter:

   They send to you a letter asking you to invest in their country, they even show you way and try to convince you and make you see it is real, but when you start sending them money, they start telling you cock and bull stories.

8. Phising:

   This is the most popular method scammer’s use. They send you an e-mail which looks like an original mail from a company telling you to upgrade to their new services, by paying a certain amount of money.

9. Loan:

   They request for loan from your organization, and when the loan is approved they run away with your money.

10. Church Organization:

    They claim to be men of God, asking you to come to their country and host a crusade. At last you will end up paying for organizing the crusade.