At 08:51 PM 28/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>MrT wrote:
>
>"Some comic relief in the epidemic of spam that has
taken over the
>Internet: the other day I received a spam piece by
one Faith Con. This
>struck me as such a pulp-perfect name for a moll that
I am giving it
>away, copyright-free, to anyone who wants to use
it."
>
>That is a great name, Mario. Too bad Ross Thomas is
no longer alive to
>use it. He could write a great con novel about her,
maybe involving the
>Nigerian scam -- she has access to a bank account
with $28.5 million . .
As a side-bar to this, within the past year my local papers
announced the arrest of a couple operating the Nigerian scam
from a sleazy motel room a couple miles from my home. It's
done on the internet of course, so the scam can originate
from anywhere (in this case Canada pretending to be Nigeria)
and reach anywhere- and that's my question. I've wondered
since whether these folks were North American central for
this scam, or just sort of a local franchise. Each of these
possibilities assumes some sort of organization, which ain't
necessarily so. Any insights?
Kerry
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