Nigerian scam is nothing new; in fact it is based on "Spanish prisoner" scam scheme from 18th century. It is interesting, however, how the new scams are create

Nigerian scam is nothing new; in fact it is based on "Spanish prisoner" scam scheme from 18th century. It is interesting, however, how the new scams are created in the age of internet. The recent one is called "AirBnB scam". Basically you flood a message board, such as Craiglist, with phony non-existing apartment rental offers by non-existing individuals for 60% of the market value. You blast New York Craigslist with beautiful photos of rentals at $650 when normal price for average spot is $1,500. Once a gullible person answers, you auto-reply to them via human looking response (bot in reality) that tells them the place has been rented but they should check AirBnB website where more are posted... Its a classical scam of information phising with criminal conduct of false advertising (could be Federal offense if crosses state line) and few other statues. PG is very lucky they whole company is not facing jail time, but I think they stop it many years ago and usually statue of limitation is 5 years. Here is more info on spammy history (including FBI most wanted list) of AirBNB founder, Mr. Blecharczyk. http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-co-founder http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...