January 31, 2003
You-can't-cheat-an-honest-man dept.
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Max Sawicky has been getting the same "My-father-was-the-oil-minister-of-Nigeria-before-they-shot-him-and-I-need-your help-to-regain-what-he-stole" spam emails I get every day. (You may remember Teresa Nielsen Hayden's categorization of this as a variant of the "Spanish Prisoner" in a fascinating taxonomy of basic frauds.) But Max has run into an especially tricky example, one that has fooled tens of millions of people.
