Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
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Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
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Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#2Including typos in the spam messages falls in this same category. If seeing typos in an "official communication" triggers your alarm bells then you probably would not fall for whatever scamola it's a part of. It'd be in their interests to get you to drop off early.
Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#3Interesting Study. There is also a related question addressed on Quora (circa 2010), on why these scams almost always originate from Nigeria and not else where. The geo-political reasons are quite interesting too http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-wire-fraud-scams-origina...
Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#4That abstract was the most convoluted way possible of saying: "because they want dumb people".
Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#5Interesting Study. There is also a related question addressed on Quora (circa 2010), on why these scams almost always originate from Nigeria and not else where. The geo-political reasons are quite interesting too http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-wire-fraud-scams-origina...
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Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#6Reminds of of this later and somewhat funnier article about the "one weird trick" ads:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/how_...
They reached the same conclusion and in that case, I can believe it's correct because those ads cost money, so must bring in more revenue, or they'd have stopped a long time ago.
In the case of 419 scams, a large proportion of the scammers may not be that sophisticated. It's entirely possible they really are just as dumb and incapable of spelling as a naive layperson would assume. The fact that "scam baiting" is a thing provides some evidence of that, although it's likely that many of those reports are fake as well.
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#7haha
Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#8That abstract was the most convoluted way possible of saying: "because they want dumb people".
It is an abstract to a paper, not an article in its own right.
Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#9Interesting Study. There is also a related question addressed on Quora (circa 2010), on why these scams almost always originate from Nigeria and not else where. The geo-political reasons are quite interesting too http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-wire-fraud-scams-origina...
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Re: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
#10I can't help wondering what percentage of the victims of the vanilla "Nigerian scam" over the internet are in developing countries nowadays where lawyers and bankers generally do use free webmail accounts for their correspondence, sending and receiving money via Western Union is quite normal, and requests for funds to bribe an official barely raise an eyebrow.