[H-GEN] Theres Still Hope!

Harry Phillips harry at tux.com.au
Sun Jul 20 20:14:53 EDT 2003


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Michael Anthon wrote:
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>>FBI/nterpol reports indicate that Nigerian Scam attempts have
>>approximately a 1% success rate.  Amazing isn't it.
> 
> 
> s/Amazing/Scary/
> 
> To think that 1 in 100 people is stupid enough to not see that this is
> obviously a scam is rather depressing.  
> 

I heard somewhere that the people more likely to respond and get sucked 
in to this scam are the more affluent with incomes above $100K.

Now that's even more scary.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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