Let’s stop Nigerian scams once and for good

Freedom to Tinker 2013-04-22

Summary:

A personal friend of mine’s Yahoo account was recently hacked by a Nigerian scammer. I know this because the email I got (“I’m stuck in the Philippines and need you to wire money”) had an IP address in a “Received” header that pointed squarely at Lagos, Nigeria. The modus operandi of these scammers is well [...]

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https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dwallach/lets-stop-nigerian-scams-once-and-for-good/

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Authors:

Dan Wallach

Date tagged:

04/22/2013, 11:33

Date published:

04/17/2013, 17:41