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419 Scam: An Evaluation of Cybercrime and Criminal Code in Nigeria

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The term “419” is coined from Section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code (part of Chapter 38: obtaining property by false pretenses; cheating) dealing with fraud.

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Acknowledgement

An earlier version of this chapter was published in JILT 2009 (1). The author is grateful to Professor Abdul Paliwala.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. International Association of Cybercrime Prevention (AILCC), Paris, France

    Mohamed Chawki

  2. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

    Ashraf Darwish

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India

    Mohammad Ayoub Khan

  4. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Yanbu Branch, Taibah University, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Mohammad Ayoub Khan

  5. Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, India

    Sapna Tyagi

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Chawki, M., Darwish, A., Khan, M.A., Tyagi, S. (2015). 419 Scam: An Evaluation of Cybercrime and Criminal Code in Nigeria. In: Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 593. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15150-2_9

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