On Thursday 24 October 2002 05:39 am, Charles Dennett wrote:
> One of the people who replies does so with his tongue firmly planted
> in his cheek.
I've seen some of them. My favorite Nigerian counter-scam is this guy
who pretends to be a anthropologist who gets involved in a Lovecraftian
type
Matthew Cline wrote:
> Not in my inbox. And 1% of
> recipients reply? How sad. Yet another blow to my faith in
> humanity...
Have you tried replying to them? It's *fun*! Try asking them complex
questions, and watch them answer in incredibly tortured English which must
take them hours to write
Matthew Cline wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/824336.asp?0si=
>
> An excerpt:
>
>
>>This swindle is commonly known as "419 fraud," after the section of
>>the Nigerian penal code covering cons. According to the anti-spam
>>software vendor Brightmail, 419 come-ons are the Web's second-most
>>
