Do People Still Fall For This?
I still regularly get communication like the one below from wives of presidents, sons of billionaires, daughters of a wealthy sheik, etc. and saying that with my help I can be an instant millionaire. The words in the message slightly vary, but the message is pretty much the same. This scam, commonly known as the “Nigerian Sam”, has been going on even before e-mail became widely widespread, but after all these years and after all the media exposure it has received, one would think folks would no longer fall for it and perhaps the scammers will change their tactics.
Well as illustrated in the e-mail below, and from the tons of similar e-mails I have received, it doesn’t look like the tactic have changed at all. I wonder if people still fall for them, since nothing changed on the bad guys side.
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