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Are these famous "get money from your dead uncle in Nigeria", are the spamers really from Nigeria? Or is it operated from some basement in Brooklyn?
by pointillistic 16y ago
Are these famous "get money from your dead uncle in Nigeria", are the spamers really from Nigeria? Or is it operated from some basement in Brooklyn?
- dangrossman 16y agoAt least some of them really were in Nigeria. You can find plenty of evidence from people reverse-scamming the senders of those letters for entertainment.
- gyardley 16y agoThey're really from Nigeria (and other countries in Africa, but primarily Nigeria). They're known as '419 scams' there, after the section of the Nigerian criminal code that deals with advance-fee fraud. This sort of fraud isn't something everyone does, but everyone's aware of it - it's certainly a part of popular culture. For example, see the song 'I Go Chop Your Dollar', performed by a popular Nigerian actor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nKR3gYRY8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nKR3gYRY8