RE: Spammers/Scammers and formats used

That Nigerian scam has been going since at least before World War II,
and I read somewhere it's the second largest industry in Nigeria. There
must be a LOT of slow-witted idiots with a lot of money I think. 

Even if you accept the emails as truthful (HAH!!) why would you give
your bank account details to someone who is by his own admission is a
corrupt crook???   That's the whole point of the message - "I'm a thief
and a corrupt crook, so just give me the keys to your wallet and I'll
fill it with money for you!"   Gawd love us. .there are some mugs around
aren't there. 



Cheers,
Michael Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks.





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of David Jones
Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2003 9:09 AM
To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: RE: Spammers/Scammers and formats used

On 10 Jan 2003, at 15:33, cbirds wrote:

> David Jones tapped out this message on 1/10/2003 3:17 PM 
> 
> >It's been done. US government went after a bunch of folk
> >behind that Nigerian money transfer scam. Others have
> >successfully sued spammers in states that have those
> >kinds of laws.
> >
> >The real problem becomes collecting any judgement 
> >you might get.
> 
> I agree, but then why did I get no less than 4 of those
> NIGERIAN scams just this week? I was in the hospital for
> about 4 days, knocked out cold, and when I returned to my
> computer, the spammers had had quite a heyday and out of
> 1,048 messages 40% were spam!

Cuz there are a lot of scammers out there, and they 
learn from each other. Con artists have been like that 
for centuries.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
 

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