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An idea to stop Nigerian scams
If recipients of Nigerian scam emails all responded (or, to be realistic, if a lot more than normal responded) to the senders, considering the goal is to make a list of gullible recipients, I think this would sufficiently break their business model.
Thoughts?
- swah 12y agoYes, but there isn't any motivation for any person to asnwer them, so that behaviour won't emerge. Lots of people troll them: http://www.reddit.com/comments/gim2k/i_scammed_a_nigerian_scammer_a_couple_of_years/ http://www.reddit.com/comments/gim2k/i_scammed_a_nigerian_sc...
- lkbm 12y agoClearly we should make it an automated feature of the "Report Phishing" button in Gmail.