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Australian Federal Police: Cost of Nigerian Scams

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134 out of 139 people in Queens­land con­tac­ted by Aus­tralian Fed­eral Police have fallen for Nigerian Scams. Lot­tery scams.

They sent a little more than $18 mil­lion dol­lars to Nigeria. That is $135,000 per person.

Account­ant, Law­yers, Doc­tors. Not people you would expect to fall for “get-rich-quick” schemes. I hope their tax, law and med­ical expert­ise is sci­en­tific­ally informed!

Keys, email man­age­ment. Know who is send­ing you email.

(from Sky News, 2:15pm)

My com­ment: wis­dom from my Dad: if some­thing sounds too good to be true, ignore it.

Written by Nick Hodge

August 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Posted in australia,technology