The "I need your good-faith gift of account numbers and/or
cash donation" scam is not only a variation on one of the
ones highlighted in THE STING, giving you some idea of its
longevity, but the specifics of this one go back at very
least as far as 1989, when I received a snail-mail
solicitation to participate in the liberation of funds, when
I was a staff member of an international professional
association. Somehow, it hasn't seemed any more tempting as I
get about three email solicitations of this sort a day, on
average.
I think this, like most pyramid schemes, doesn't need
centralization so much as the initiative to get one's own
scam going. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Kerry Schooley [mailto:
gsp.schoo@skylinc.net] 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?
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 29 Aug 2003 EDT