From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Confidential
Date: 27 Oct 2002 01:16:32 GMT
Date: 2002-10-27T01:16:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apfepg$13v32$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vHGu9.125081$La5.402020@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>> Telex or TWX. Nigeria is (in)famous for this type of scam.
> I heard a segment on the radio about it. It's called the 490 scam (or
> some such number) after the section of the Nigerian legal code that
> outlaws it.
It's "409", not "490."
And it appears that a substantial portion of Nigerian government
officials are actively involved in the scam.
> There are versions where it's an American soldier in Afghanistan who
> stumbled on some booty, instead of a Nigerian official. It got
> started in the Midwest a hundred years ago as the "Sir Francis
> Drake" scam - somebody in England was going to get you a share in
> the treasure Queen Elizabeth took from him. So far as I know,
> there's not yet a version that has anything to do with Ada....
I've seen versions involving Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kenya, and
the Congo.
Apparently they have flown people to Nigeria to show them vaults full
of gold to suck them into bigger participation. (That's only
worthwhile when the "suckee" has Great Gobs of Money available to be
scammed, of course.)
It seems hard to believe that there would be anyone left that /hasn't/
heard that it's a scam.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 20:38 Confidential adaobim
2002-10-26 20:59 ` Confidential Jim Rogers
2002-10-26 22:31 ` Confidential David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-10-27 0:46 ` Confidential tmoran
2002-10-27 1:16 ` Christopher Browne [this message]
2002-10-28 12:30 ` Confidential Marin David Condic
2002-10-27 6:02 ` Confidential Advance Australia Dear
2002-10-30 5:00 ` Confidential Richard Riehle
2002-10-27 1:07 ` Confidential Christopher Browne
2002-10-27 15:52 ` Confidential Larry Kilgallen
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