In the early, typical version of the scam, the targeted person was led to believe that s/he would soon gain access to large sums of money upon payment of a small processing fee. The initial payment of a few hundred dollars, according to the scam artist, was all that was standing in the way of a large money transfer routed directly to the target’s personal bank account. The money was usually presented as illegally obtained funds in need of laundering. The overseas embezzler simply needed a willing accomplice’s American bank account to which to transfer the.
