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This excessive list of further reading violations WP:NOTDIR. I removed all but the first three (no particular reason for choosing the first three). If you feel I removed a more important one feel free to replace it, but do not add back more. Adding here per WP:PRESERVE. Thanks!

Apter, Andrew (2005). "The Politics of Illusion". The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-02355-9.
Berry, Michael (2006). Greetings in Jesus Name!: The Scambaiter Letters. Harbour Books. ISBN 1-905128-08-8.
Daly, Samuel Fury Childs (2020). A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108840767
Dillon, Eamon (2008). "Chapter 6: The 419ers". The Fraudsters — How Con Artists Steal Your Money. Merlin Publishing. ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4. Archived from the original on 2013-05-29.
Edelson, Eve (2006). Scamorama: Turning the Tables on Email Scammers. Disinformation Company. ISBN 1-932857-38-9.
Ibrahim, S. (2016, June). Causes of socioeconomic cybercrime in Nigeria. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensic (ICCCF) (pp. 1–9). IEEE.
Tive, Charles (2006). 419 Scam: Exploits of the Nigerian Con Man. iUniverse.com. ISBN 0-595-41386-2.
Van Wijk, Anton (2009). Mountains of Gold; An Exploratory Research on Nigerian 419-fraud: Backgrounds. SWP Publishing. ISBN 978-90-8850-028-2. Archived from the original on 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
Oriola, Taiwo A. (January 2005). "Advance fee fraud on the Internet: Nigeria's regulatory response". Computer Law & Security Review. 21 (3): 237–248. doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2005.02.006.
Adogame, Afe (2009). "The 419 Code as Business Unusual: Youth and the Unfolding of the Advance Fee Fraud Online Discourse". Asian Journal of Social Science. 37 (4): 551–573. doi:10.1163/156853109X460192.
Edwards, Matthew; Peersman, Claudia; Rashid, Awais (2017). "Scamming the Scammers" (PDF). Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion – WWW '17 Companion. pp. 1291–1299. doi:10.1145/3041021.3053889. ISBN 978-1-4503-4914-7. S2CID 13435344. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-05-09.
Akinladejo, Olubusola H. (24 July 2007). "Advance fee fraud: trends and issues in the Caribbean". Journal of Financial Crime. 14 (3): 320–339. doi:10.1108/13590790710758512.
Onyebadi, Uche; Park, Jiwoo (21 February 2012). "'I'm Sister Maria. Please help me': A lexical study of 4-1-9 international advance fee fraud email communications". International Communication Gazette. 74 (2): 181–199. doi:10.1177/1748048511432602. S2CID 143777619.
Walker, Glen; Adomi, Esharenana E.; Igun, Stella E. (3 October 2008). "Combating cyber crime in Nigeria". The Electronic Library. 26 (5): 716–725. doi:10.1108/02640470810910738.
Whittaker, Jack; Button, Mark (September 2020). "Understanding Pet Scams: A Case Study of Advance-fee and Non-delivery Fraud". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 53 (4): 497–514. doi:10.1177/0004865820957077. S2CID 224966263.

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