A digital forensic analysis of advance fee fraud (419 scams)

Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 296-317

  Ofulue, Christine I ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch019     Document Type: Chapter

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