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419
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English
Noun
A 419 fraud; any of the various advance fee scams in which the scammer solicits up front payments promising large sums of money.
en 2007 Teju Cole Every Day is for the Thief Faber & Faber (2015) 26 Above him, on the wall of the cybercafe, is a large yellow sign with black block letters that warns: “TO OUR CUSTOMERS – Tomsed Cyber Cafe now has an activity monitor software that monitors all activities of 419s including their mails in all our workstations. Therefore any customer caught with 419 job will be handed over to the police. BE WARNED!”
Related terms
419 scam
419 scammer
en Crime
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from zh en for one night.
Pronunciation
As English: "four one nine".
Noun
zh noun
zh slang one-night stand
在 CCAV 工作 的 朋友 4 月 19 號 為了 419 去 了 ^成都{dū} ,我 給 買 的 機票。約炮 成 沒 成 我 不 知道,如今 作為 前 幾 批 到達 現場 的 記者 活躍 在 報道 第一線 … 我 該 怎麼 吐槽 比較 好 ?… My friend working at CCAV(CCTV) went for 419 at April 19th. I bought his plane ticket to Chengdu. I don't know whether the booty call succeeded or not, but it turned out that he started working as a journalist of CCTV to report emergency. What should I say about this?
zh terms written in foreign scripts
zh Sex