419 Advance Fee Fraud

Also known as the Nigerian Connection or Nigerian Scam. Named after a for-

merly relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria, where the scam originated and where most activity still originates.The target receives an unsolicited e-mail (i.e., spam) indicating something along the lines that some member of a previous government or royal family of Nigeria or some other West African nation (or now some country in the Middle East or some other exotic place) has had substantial funds frozen by

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• rt (real-time)
• RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol)
• RTS (Request To Send)
• rt-VBR (real-time Variable Bit Rate)
• rule of thumb
• rule of thumb
• rules of engagement
• rules of engagement
• run-length encoding
• runt
• Rural and High Cost Program
• Rural Health Care Corporation (RHC)
• Rural Health Care Program
• Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Center (RIPE NCC)
• S
• SAN (Storage Area Network)
• SAPI (Service Access Point Identifier)
• SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly)
• satellite
• S band
• S-Band (Short [Wavelength] Band)
• SBE (Small Business Enterprise)
• SCAI (Switch-to-Computer Applications Interface)
• SCAI (Switch-to-Computer Applications Interface)
• scaling