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The Spanish prisoner scam [1] is the oldest long-term scam (it is a complex, well-planned and rewarding scam that makes the "target" think that he can get many times more income than his investment). It originated in England in the late 6th century (1588). This is a simple scam, but if the scam is successful, you can often get a lot of money. The background of the scam is England under the rule of Elizabeth I. England is under the threat of Spanish invasion all day, and there is an extreme crisis of trust between the two countries. Only by understanding this background can you understand how fraud is carried out. The original form of fraud: The swindler fabricated a convincing story to approach the rich target and told the target that he had a rich companion imprisoned in a Spanish prison under the false identity, when Spain was under the rule of King Philip II. The swindler told the target that the prisoner could not reveal his identity and hoped to raise enough money through him to let him be released. The liar continued to make up stories, saying that the prisoners in Spanish prisons entrusted him with trying his best to raise money. The swindler then said that he would give the deceived object a piece of cake and let him pay some money, and promised to give him a very considerable sum of money as a reward when the prisoner was released. He also promised to marry the beautiful daughter of the prisoner to stimulate and seduce him. Once the target pays the money, the swindler pretends to disappear for a short time, apparently to pay the money to bail the prisoner. However, the fraud has just begun ... after a while, the liar will say how difficult it is to bail the prisoner-of course, more money is needed now, and then more and more. In the end, the swindler disappeared completely after the cheated object spent all his money. One of the main features of Spanish prisoner fraud is the emphasis on confidentiality, which means that if the identity of released prisoners is revealed, the target will get nothing. Liars often mention from time to time that he was chosen to do it after carefully examining his own character. Variant of the scam: An interesting variant of the Spanish prisoner scam is that the prisoner is said to be a deposed princess. Said the princess would be happy to marry him if he raised money to bail her out. Over time, when the target began to suspect that it was a scam, the liar would find him again and give him a letter written by the princess herself. The letter says that the princess has been released and is now in France. But she still needs hundreds of gold coins to ensure that she can finally cross the sea smoothly. The target was very happy and paid the money again. However, the liar is not over yet ... Next, the princess wrote that she needed more money because her parents, the former king and queen, were also imprisoned. Then, she said that the Spanish spy found out what she wanted to escape, and she wanted to give all the money to the spy. Every time the goal is fooled by a new story, it keeps paying. In this process, there will be many swindlers' associates and some small characters coming out one after another. When the princess arrived, the scam was over. Finally, at the door of the target, a Spanish spy suddenly appeared and "murdered" the liar. This requires the liar to carry a "giggle-bladder" (a bag containing chicken blood used in fraud and murder. When a "Spanish spy" shot at him with a fake gun, he broke the bag and made the chicken bleed, then fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. The target must be frightened, then the princess ran to him, kissed him gently and told him that she must go into exile, otherwise neither of them could live. Since then, the deceived object has never seen the "princess" again.

Known as the world's "top ten" classic scam.

This move is to remind the world to be alert to all kinds of fraud activities.

Since the invention of currency, swindlers have been trying their best to cheat money from others. Last year, about 28 million people in Britain became the targets of fraud. According to figures released by the British government, the loss of financial fraud is about 6,543.8 billion pounds. Recently, some media listed the top ten most daring scams in history to remind the world to be alert to financial fraud.

chain letter

Dave Ross is the initiator of the most famous serial letter in the world. Twenty years ago, the first formatted serial letter was sent from the post office. The title of this serial letter is "making money quickly". The letter requires the recipient to send a certain amount of money to several names listed in the letter, and then copy the letter to other addresses. The serial letter promised that the result would be to make big money with small investment and earn 40 thousand pounds in 60 days. No one knows if Dave Ross really exists.

Lottery scam

Organized criminal gangs in Canada called some British families (usually elderly people) and told them that they had won the lottery prize in Canada, and they had to pay a certain handling fee before they could win the prize. Although the means are poor, many British people have been cheated, and some people have even been cheated out of 40 thousand pounds.

MLM fraud

In 200 1 year, a pyramid scheme fraud case named "Women Empowering Women" became the focus of attention of major newspapers in the world. This fraud case swept across Britain, causing many British women to suffer huge losses. This scam takes the form of paying membership fees, encouraging women to invest, promising a return of 24,000 pounds for investing 3,000 pounds, and trying to get contact information of family and friends from members. Many people lost 3000 pounds in membership fees.

"4 19 fraud case"

Have you ever received an English email, in which the writer claimed to be the family of a senior Nigerian government official, whose bank account was frozen due to coup or corruption, and needed help to transfer tens of millions of dollars, and then asked you to provide the funds and details of the bank account to help them transfer funds, and promised you a generous return, but in fact they would empty your account. This is the "4 19 fraud case" in Nigeria.

According to a survey, Nigerian scammers cheat 40 million dollars online every year.

Marriage scam

People often say that love can blind people. This may be the reason why more and more loverboy cheat through online dating centers. At the beginning of this year, a married Singaporean woman named Ram was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for defrauding an American man of $45,000 (22,000 pounds) with marriage as bait.

"Ponzi scheme"

One of the most typical scams in the 20th century is Ponzi scheme, which is one of the templates of pyramid schemes. Many subsequent scams were derived from Ponzi schemes. Ponzi scheme got its name from Charles Ponzi. 1920 began to engage in investment fraud. About 40,000 people participated in this scam, and the amount cheated reached150,000 US dollars, equivalent to today's1500 million US dollars. Ponzi ended up in prison.

Pyramid pyramid selling

In the 1990s, two-thirds of Albania's population lost their life savings in the most destructive pyramid scheme, which triggered street riots and killed thousands of people. It almost triggered a civil war in this poor country and finally led to the collapse of the government, because the plan was supported by the government at the beginning.

Cross fraud

Baroque Ross scam is one of the most notorious scams in British history. In 1980s, Barlow Cross Company absorbed the funds of18,000 private investors, who all thought that they were investing in risk-free government bonds. In fact, a large sum of money went into the private account of Peter Cross, the founder of the company. He used the money to buy private jets, luxury cars, luxury houses and luxury yachts and lived a luxurious life until it was exposed and imprisoned.

Leukemia scam

Some swindlers know how to touch people's heartstrings. A few years ago, a couple in Indiana claimed that their child had leukemia and wanted to fulfill her dream as much as possible before her child died. The whole town mobilized to donate money for them, and finally raised 13000 dollars. It turned out that their children were all healthy, and their family flew to Disneyland in Florida with the cheated 13000 dollars.

Virtual bank fraud

At the beginning of this year, a virtual bank "Ginko Finance" appeared in the popular online game Second Life, claiming to bring high returns to investors. However, the virtual bank quickly closed down, resulting in many people unable to get their investment back. After that, a bank appeared in Second Life, which went bankrupt after absorbing a lot of virtual currency-Linden coins. The two founders of the bank converted 2.5 million Linden coins into real currency-5,000 dollars, and never appeared in Second Life again.