> I agree that I tire of seeing reposts of crap like the Nigerian scam, but > the sad reality is that people must still be falling for it. I was over at > Google Answers the other day and saw what I thought was an interesting > question posed by a guy, who wanted to know what legal and taxation > ramifications there were when a foreign entity invested a large sum of > money into his US company. After paragraphs of quite intelligent sounding > questions, he mentioned that he wondered how the Nigerian Royal Family > found out about him. I fell on the ground laughing. For 99.9% of the piece > I read, I thought I was looking at a smart guy, then I thought "how dumb". > Truth is that he wasn't dumb. He just hadn't been around the block as many > times as the rest of us. I'm sure there are a few people on this list who > are newcomers to the game - we all were at some stage. >
It was refreshing to see a couple of 419-ers go to prison up here in Canada: http://www.cybercrime.ca/article.php?sid=64 The Nigerian government has also set up a clearing house for 419 news: http://www.nigerianfraudwatch.org/ -mark -- Quality aftermarket domains at http://www.eliteNIC.com 10% off when remitting via e-gold --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
