ASC Seminar: A history of Nigerian organized crime

Probably everybody reading this abstract has received an unexpected e-mail communication promising a huge sum of money or an impossibly attractive business transaction. The sender requires in return some basic personal information, perhaps including bank account details. This is an advance fee fraud, known in Nigeria as a Four One Nine, as it is an infraction of Article 419 of that country’s criminal code. In this seminar senior ASC researcher Stephen Ellis will show how certain types of criminal practice developed in Nigeria—often quite recently—and indeed how the state itself has become a vehicle for organised crime. Please register.

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