Attached Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud

ahh variations on the 419 scam :)

see here

Advance fee fraud

 

An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (or 419 fraud) and "The Spanish Prisoner."