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Australian Federal Police: Cost of Nigerian Scams

By Nick Hodge | August 23, 2007

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.

Topics: australia, technology | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Australian Federal Police: Cost of Nigerian Scams”

  1. Luke Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 10:40 am

    Fool. Money. Parted.

    I’m not sure I see the prob­lem. :)

  2. Kim Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    There was a greedy par­son pray­ing to God to help win­ning the Lotto, God replyed you have to buy the ticket first and leave the rest to me.

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