Pleased To Be Your Trusted Friend
For anyone, and I’m assuming it’s nearly everyone, who’s ever received one of those NIgerian scam emails, this article should be pretty interesting. It’s fairly long, so I recommend reading it at work instead of doing your Excel spreadsheets. From this article, it appears that Nigeria’s entire economy is based on these email scams. I had no idea they made so much money. I also learned how they get your email address in the first place(those email chain letters that are supposedly sent by Microsoft promising money to anyone who passes it along.)
Oh, and even though it’s a little old, here’s the story of two guys who got back at some Nigerian scammers. This one is even longer, but it’s definitely worth reading, at least until they convince the scammer to take pictures of himself wearing a handmade t-shirt for their fictional rap group that reads “In This Mothafucka.” (Thanks, Clark)
The Perfect Mark [The New Yorker]
