But then we wouldn't have cool new words like "Contactus"

If you've never seen a Contactus, you're missing out. They're really cool. They grow in the badlands of the internet, surviving for weeks without water or human interaction.

I bet the literate ones don't conduct the scam via spam.

I got one by snail mail a while back. It wasn't much better.

Wow, that turns my internal notion of the profitability of this scam on its nose. I had no idea this was profitable enough to pay for postage.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It was particularly odd, as it was mailed from the UK, and I live in Austria. I haven't quite figured out how they managed to get my address, I can only assume that they got it through the public business directory. (my home address is the same as the registered address of my freelance/consulting business, so I can't tell for certain) Why they'd mail me in English then (how do they know I speak it?) I have absolutely no idea.

Re. profitability, this older news might be of interest:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22214192...