how do they make money off of this? i never understood the motivation behind
it...
So the scam goes, "There's this big heap of money in some kind of bank account or vault somewhere, but there are various beaurocratic barriers to getting my hands on it - bank advance fees, officials to bribe, that kind of thing - so if you help me out by paying these fees for me, I'll make you handsomely rich by giving you a considerable share of the loot."
Astonishingly, people have really fallen for this kind of thing. It generally ends in the fees spiralling upwards ("thanks for the $10,000 - now they say I have to pay some kind of secondary release fee, please send another $5,000) until the scamee realises their money isn't ever going to materialise and starts impotently talking about lawyers, or else the scamee turns up in Lagos to pick up his riches and gets mugged (or worse) by the scammer's large aggressive friends.
It's commonly known as "Nigerian 419 fraud", 419 being the section of Nigerian law that covers this kind of stuff.
cheers
Julian
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