£12 million sent to Nigerian Scams

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aircobra19

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I find it hard to believe so many fall for this. 12m?

 
That cop has a racist name! :mad:

I'd say the word "apparently" might be key here - i.e. we just made that figure up?
 
Related to this, in the past few days I've been deluged with scam emails (okay five or six a day). I guess despite my best efforts, I still wasn't careful enough with my email address.
 
just think of all the jobs that would be lost in western union offices if these scams stopped...
 
I dunno why spam is such hassle. 99 out 100 of them have such obvious titles and subject text that its clearly spam. Likewise the same or 90% similar email sent to a few million people is obviously spam aswell. Why the online services and ISP's can't just catch all of this is beyond me. Gmail is very good at catching most of it. Hotmail is terrible. A lot of commercial software seems very poor at it aswell.
 
Does anyone else remember the Two Ronnies sketch called "The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town" which featured Inspector Corner of the Yard?
 
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