Nigeria Scam
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Mar 5 14:32:18 CST 2003
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, James Colannino wrote:
> Does anyone know where these Nigeria scams are coming from? I have
> never read one fully and am wondering what the point is. Are they all
> coming from the same source or are they look alikes from many different
> places?
Nigeria, mainly. The scam has spread to other countries as well:
http://www.scambusters.org/NigerianFee.html
http://www.quatloos.com/default2.htm
I got bored with all of the scam letters I was getting, so a while back I
adapted a Mad-Libs CGI to use them:
http://www.southwesternhell.com/perl/weblibs.pl
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