victims of Nigerian-type email scams lost $9.3 billion in 2009
 

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com...am-emails.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...tml?m od=e2tw

People will always fall for this shit.

how does it actually work, when it says send $100 or something, do they get access to their account? or just lose the 100 bucks?

There are many variants. The most common one is to promise millions and ask the victim to wire money to pay for transport/armored cars/security/bribes to get the money out of the country etc.

Wow,truly amazing people can still fall for this shit

Lose the hundred and earn a place on the gullible list to be milked for more and more.

People who fall for these scams probably would have lost that money one way or another.

also heard from somebody who was involved in that kind of shit, Nigerian and other African scammers use some kind of "black magic" in personal encounters... Whether you believe in that shit or not... it would partly explain why people (and most of the time smart/educated people) fall for those kinds of scams.

i cant afford to be Nigerian.. :(

its amazing how fucking stupid people are

Serious money there

:2 cents:

Considering most of them also believe in a mysterious bearded white man in the sky who created the universe and hates gay people, it's not really that surprising they would eb dumb enough to fall for such scams.

jesus that is serious cash!

Whoa whoa whoa ..... Penis pills don't work?

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Well i believed when it went out for first time,but luckily i didn't had any money then so didnt lost anything.But it's all because of greed,all you need to say "you will receive xxx money"and the rest of text can be totally retarded yet victim will still blindly follow.I heard someone from my city lost 1 million on it.

If people are that stupid to believe in this, then they actually deserve to lose the money and never get it back. Idiots.

I think Helen must be a Russian Nigerian or Nigerian Russian.

This is more "blindness" issue then intelligence.

Then people actually wonder ,how did people sign for mortgages they couldnt afford. lol

People are fucking morons.

I have no sympathy for people that fall for these scams. If you're going to be retarded enough to send some random stranger $ in hopes of getting millions back then you deserve to get fucked in the ass. There are way to many morons on this planet. Ever since I got the internet back in the early 90's I got thousands of these scam emails and never once did I fall for it. Even when I knew nothing about the internet (the 1st time I got it) I knew damn well that it was a scam.

Porn won't ever die as long as there are people that stupid in the world! Thank god for idiots!

9.3 billion.........

I remember about ten years ago , one of my girlfriends at the time , typical white trash her mother recieved an email and was jumping around so happy that abdul jamalia has 10 million dollars for her, she then started saying I can't wait to have this money I'll give you 2 million to help your kids etc etc.. i sat by and didn't say anything i knew it was a scam , she continued to open a bank account and gave the people her info, what they do is keep taking money out and out then something get's lost in the mail so blah blah blah keeps going on and on sounds like something paul markham came up with.