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Nigerians are back with a new scam
While in 2000 many requests were sent by letter or fax, the more tech savvy 419ers now randomly select email addresses or even mobile phone numbers to send out thousands of invitations. Though the technology has changed, the basic format of the appeal has not. Photo/LIZ MUTHONI
Posted Thursday, December 31 2009 at 00:00
Doing nothing
The scam artistes trade on the premise that most people are happy to receive money for doing nothing, as well as the ego boost that most recipients experience when they feel they have been “specially selected”.
A copy of the same scam that was sent to Business Daily said all participants were selected randomly from the “World Wide Web-site, through a computer draw system and extracted from over 100 million companies and individual emails address.”
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