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Microsoft Research: Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? [pdf]
- dalke 11y agoThis is the paper from 2012 that posits that wild proposals quickly winnow away all but the most gullible. It's been posted several times before on HN. The one with the most comments is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224059 from a year ago with 73 comments.