Interview with a Nigerian Bank Scammer

Wired also had a good article yesterday about the Nigerian Bank Scam, in which they interviewed a Nigerian student who actually used to compose the letters that were sent out to potential victims. The student says that the letters were purposefully designed to read like offbeat soap operas.

Con Artists Email Hoaxes

Posted on Fri Jul 19, 2002



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Deeply poetic irony....

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Posted by Dermot  on  Tue May 10, 2005  at  01:55 PM
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