419 Scam Costs Britons 8.4m GBP in 2002

Albanach writes "In this article the Scotland on Sunday newspaper reports figures from the UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service which show 150 Britons were caught out by the Nigerian 419 scam and its variations in 2002, with a total loss of 8.4m GBP ($13.3m US)or around 57,000 GBP ($90,000 US) a head. "

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Re:What did you expect? You tastless prick

[Bowie J. Poag]

You'de be surprised how effective it is to expose a troll. Besides, its publically available information. What people do with publically available information isn't really my responsibility, or even my concern for that matter...

Just so you know, this guy follows me everywhere..He's basically a psychopath. I found out recently that blames me for the failure of his GetTux.com "business" about 3 or 4 years ago. The reason I say "business" is because he was trying to sell CDs of software people could easilly download for themselves. His "business", from start to finish, lasted two weeks. Lord knows how he connects me with the failure of his brilliant dot-com venture. I've never even heard of this guy before he started to obsess over me.

The last 5 years have been filled with hordes of dot-com losers and their attempts at assigning blame for their business failings. This guy apparently hasn't learned that he has no one to blame but himself, and is stuck in a loop where he needs to harass me to get over it.

Have a look, if you're curious.

What Google knows on this guy. ..and..
A little extra information.

Cheers,