Editing Advance-fee scam (section)

=== Invitation to visit the country ===
Sometimes, victims are invited to a country to meet government officials, an associate of the scammer, or the scammer themselves. Some victims who travel are instead held for ransom. Scammers may tell a victim that they do not need a [[visa (document)|visa]] or that the scammers will provide one.<ref name="StateDeptPub10465">{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/2189.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808173429/https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/2189.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-08 |url-status=live |author=United States Department of State |title=Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud (DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 10465) |date=April 1997 |access-date=January 4, 2019 |publisher=State Dept. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs }}</ref> If the victim does this, the scammers have the power to extort money from the victim.<ref name="StateDeptPub10465" />

Sometimes victims are ransomed, [[kidnap]]ped, or murdered. According to a 1995 U.S. State Department report, over fifteen persons were murdered between 1992 and 1995 in Nigeria after following through on advance-fee frauds.<ref name="StateDeptPub10465" /> In 1999 Norwegian millionaire Kjetil Moe was lured to South Africa by scammers and was murdered.<ref>[http://www.norwaypost.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8587&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=26 Kjetil Moe found dead].</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25269|title=The 419 Scam, or Why a Nigerian Prince Wants to Give You Two Million Dollars|work=informit.com|date=February 8, 2002}}</ref> George Makronalli was lured to South Africa and was killed in 2004.<ref name="News24murder">{{cite news|url=http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SA-cops-Interpol-probe-murder-20041231|publisher=News24|title=SA cops, Interpol probe murder|author =Philip de Braun|date=2004-12-31|access-date=2010-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://freebies.about.com/library/weekly/aa110302a.htm|title=Scam Bait – Don't let greed get you scammed|publisher=Freebies.about.com|date=2010-06-17|access-date=2012-02-22|archive-date=2012-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213193110/http://freebies.about.com/library/weekly/aa110302a.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>