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