Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? [pdf]

Posted by tosh on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:23AM
from the econinfosec.org dept.

http://www.econinfosec.org/archive/weis2012/papers/Herley_WEIS2012.pdf

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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? [pdf] by brudgers on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:53AM (#15609923)

Interesting comments in some previous discsussions, https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Do%20Nigerian%20Scammers...

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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? [pdf] by pythonboi on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:30AM (#15609755)

When I was younger, around 7 or 8, and saw my parents get the Nigerian scammer spam, I felt bad because they had some sort of sad story tied in to the email. It wasn't until I noticed the sloppy grammar that I realized that it was a fake email.

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