I have heard of some people who did loose a lot of money by following their greed and the proposed offers in the Nigerian spam offensive.
I am amazed how stupid some people are... but imagine you are living under very poor conditions and once in your life you find some stupid persone in the rich countries... just once in your life time. I also received this kind of spam from Congo and Liberia. About 3 weeks ago I heard on BBC news a story of an attack on a member of a Nigerian embassy (Vienna ?) by someone who did loose money. This news item was not confirmed in my newspaper that evening. Regards, Bastiaan On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 13:28:22 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:53:34 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:40:03 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > <snip> >> Almost no money is being made by the people who send out the spam, >> just as almost no money was made by those who sent out chain letters. >> The money is made by those selling lists and services as there is >> a ready market fueled by greed and stupidity. > I don't know of any way anybody might go about trying to prove or > disprove your opinion. The spam business and chain letter > business is so underground and clandestine. How many people would > openly admit to making or losing money in an illegal business? I > don't know of any way we can conduct any competent research to > investigate the profitability of this kind of business. In the > case of a chain letter we can figure the statistical potential for > its success only if we know how far down in the chain we are dangling > and only if we can make correct guesses about how many recipients > on the links further down on the chain will participate. > Sam Heywood > -- > This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: > http://browser.arachne.cz/
