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Hilarious. But it sucks that the author draws this conclusion: "If people in the U.S. aren’t suspicious of free money, PayPal payments that look fake, [...], o
by ipince 14y ago
Hilarious. But it sucks that the author draws this conclusion:
"If people in the U.S. aren’t suspicious of free money, PayPal payments that look fake, [...], or just Nigerians in general, then they deserve to have their money taken from them."
I feel like we need a tumblr to post blatantly obvious scams like these. Maybe that would help the common folk be better at identifying them.
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- pseudonym 14y agoSomeone actually did a paper on why every one of these scams seems to come from Nigeria[1]. If you're not at least suspicious when something like this comes "from Nigeria" at this point, there's probably no helping you. [1]http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf