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ELI5: Why is Nigeria so strongly associated with scams?
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It's called an advance-fee-fraud and was made popular by nigerian groups in the 80s via fax and now via e-mail. They send you a letter in pretty bad english (they are africans and they want you to believe them, so they don't speak flawlessly) and say that a nigerian prince has a lot of money and wants to transfer it out of the country or something in that fashion. Usually, you have to pay a little amount of money, so they can "set it up", of course, you will never see any money.  

This is also known as the Nigeria Connection or the 419 scam (The nigerian law code §419 is about scams like this)