Nigeria Scam

[Gerald Combs]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, James Colannino wrote:

> Does anyone know where these Nigeria scams are coming from?  I have 
> never read one fully and am wondering what the point is.  Are they all 
> coming from the same source or are they look alikes from many different 
> places?

Nigeria, mainly.  The scam has spread to other countries as well:

http://www.scambusters.org/NigerianFee.html

http://www.quatloos.com/default2.htm

I got bored with all of the scam letters I was getting, so a while back I
adapted a Mad-Libs CGI to use them:

http://www.southwesternhell.com/perl/weblibs.pl