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Thread #65307 Message #2353962
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-May-08 - 06:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
Most confidence tricks tend to be based on getting someone to do something they know is pretty dodgy - a bit of money laundwering, or takinmg advantage of someone's desperate need to raise money, that kind of thing. Victims, in a sense, bring it on themselves by and to a degree deserve to get fleeced.
The classical Nigerian internet scam falls into that category.
The kind of letters that arrive in the post telling us we've won some enormous amount in a lottery because our name was randomly selected are different. People who fall for it are naive, but not dishonest.