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Two special agents from the U.S. Secret Service will discuss the "Advance Fee" or "4-1-9" email fraud commonly known as the "Nigerian Letter," and what is being done about it.
Every day, hundreds of them land in USC electronic mailboxes: pleas for help, usually from Africa, offering millions of dollars in dubious rewards. And every day, the USC Office for Information Assurance tries to protect USC email address holders from the fraud these messages threaten -- working with, among others, the US Secret Service. And those who want to learn more are invited to hear a special presentation by the Secret Service December 9. As most people now know, these letters are frauds, scams to entice the unwary into giving up enough information to allow their bank accounts or credit cards to be looted. As many people at USC don't know, USC has taken systematic steps to deal with such "Nigerian letters," starting with a special email address, incident@usc.edu, to which all suspicious email should be forwarded. To learn more, attend the Dec. 9 event.
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