On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 11:56 -0600, Dave Pooser wrote: > > A scam of this type needs to be pretty tightly targeted to work. The > > scammer would need at least a matched pair of addresses and a good > > probability that the supposed sender could be somewhere near the place > > where the alleged robbery was said to have happened. > > If I've got access to your freemail account, I've got access to your address > book. > ...and I suppose the same would apply to social networks. I don't use either, so am somewhat clueless about what goodies are available if you can access their accounts.
> The one of these I encountered at $DAYJOB was sent to the account > owner's wife's ex-husband-- not my first choice when asking for emergency > funds. The email also claimed he was traveling in London-- the guy AFAIK > hasn't left Texas, let alone the US, in the past few years-- and used a > number of phrases that a native speaker of American so-called-English > wouldn't. > OK, looks like I hugely overestimated the intelligence of recipients of such scams and hence the care needed to target an attack. Martin
