Spanish Prisoner

For the film based on this term, see The Spanish Prisoner.

The Spanish Prisoner is a confidence trick originating by at least the early 19th century, as Eugène François Vidocq described in his memoirs. Modern variants of the fraud include the advance-fee scam, in particular the Nigerian money transfer (or 419) scam.

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