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SCO Nigerian Spam
An anonymous reader writes "This Nigerian/SCO spam email (courtesy of Ars Technica) has been doing the rounds recently." With all the SCO news lately, it's nice to see something with a bit of humor in it.
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The worst thing is that many people will ACTUALLY fall for it (as for the other nigerian Scam) ... people that still believe that there's some "good" people around there ...
The whole point of a Nigerian scam is that the victim thinks that they're getting on the inside of some crooked scheme. Nobody signs up for 30% of $10,000,000 (or whatever) because they think it's all clean and above board. They think they've got the chance of a lifetime and that BECAUSE it's obviously (despite all the denials, in fact emphasised by all the denials) crooked that the other party really needs them to make it work.
The fact that they've been knowingly engaging in a crooked scheme is then used against them later as part of the extortion effort or to dissuade them from going to the authorities.
Believing that there are "good" people out there doesn't come into it.
do people sit around one day hoping their poor pathetic lives will suddenly become interesting when they're plunged into the intrigue of a spy thriller and they'll come out of it rich?
Yes.
This sounds like a really good business idea to me! I mean, c'mon, 1 billion dollars. The nigerian son of the king only had like 300 million to share. My 1000 dollars would only have given me like 10 million back.
:)
Just tell me who my lawyer should contact if I want to join
Gotta disagree with suggestion two here... the "SEVENTY (70)" line makes it perfectly clear to everyone what a ridiculously small fraction of Linux SCO might have some claim to.
Suggestion one, I agree, would improve the impact of the piece.
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The greed of some people will cause some to fall for this one. The Nigerian scam has been in the news for months, and still some people fall for this scam
People are dumb, Jay. Somewhere out there there are just enough people just stupid enough to fall for spam and scam. As for all caps and stupid English, AOLers and /. trolls do that all the time.
And the SCO pump-and-dump is what, precisely?
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!