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The first Nigerian Prince scams started over email.
by cyberax 3mo ago
The first Nigerian Prince scams started over email.
- krisoft 3mo agoMayhaps. But Spanish prisoner letters were known much before that. Which is basically the same advance fee scam but with a different cover story. Here is a story which describes one such letter from 1913: https://web.archive.org/web/20020815055745/http://www.samizdat.com/solovieff.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020815055745/http://www.samizd...
- jamiek88 3mo agoSnail mail scams like that were common for decades prior. My mates dad nearly fell for one once.