[LINK] [Another] Internet Fraud - Sympathy for Nigeria spam "victims"?

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Robin Whittle wrote:

> Tim O'Leary wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone really  feel sorry for those greedy people who fall for 
> > the Nigerian scam which accounts for around 20% of complaints.
> 
> Not me. They decision to part with their money is the sole source of
> finance and motivation for the spammers who burden us all.  Like the
> spammers, the so-called "victims" are motivated purely by greed.  Unlike
> the spammers, they probably have lots of money already, or at least good
> credit with their bank.  

I know that in at least one, and probably more, recent court case the
money was ripped of from the person's employer.

> 
> If it wasn't for the spam burden on non-"victims", I would be tempted to
> think it was a good thing: people who are often in poor countries
> relieving greedy wealthy people of large amounts of their money solely
> because they are both greedy and gullible.

Two things I wish they would learn to use; the Shift key and a grammer 
checker :)  ...and perhaps also, the English language.

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Howard.
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