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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Nigerian email conmen fall into their targets'net
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:18:14 -0500

Copycats...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Paul Jones
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 11:04 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [internetworkers] Nigerian email conmen fall into their
> targets'net
>
>
http://money.guardian.co.uk/scamsandfraud/story/0,13802,1086308,00.html
>
> Nigerian email conmen fall into their targets' net
>
> Tony Thompson, crime correspondent
> Sunday November 16, 2003
> The Observer
>
> It has been described as the internet's first blood sport and is fast
> becoming one of the web's favourite pastimes. Fed up with having their
> inboxes clogged with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising untold
> riches, the victims are finally hitting back.
>
> Scam-baiting - replying to the emails and stringing the con artists
along
> with a view to humiliating them as much as possible - is becoming
> increasingly popular with more than 150 websites chronicling the often
> hilarious results.
>
> [...]
>
>
>
>
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