Nigerian Dragon

I have to say, I was mighty surprised to find this article on BBC:

I erroneously believed that even old grannies in Pihtiputaa back in Finland knew about Nigerian Internet scams, and I thought you’d literally have to discover some forgotten tribe in Amazon rain forest in order successfully pull of one of these. The fact that I get four of these a day kinda gives it all away. At this rate I could make billions a year if these letters were a genuine article.

Seems that I was completely wrong about people getting wise about these, though. Quoth the BBC:

The criminal uses information they trick from the gullible victims and commonly strips their bank account.
These style of incidents alone cost the UK economy £150m a year - with the average victim losing £31,000 the report said.

So even the most god-awful email hoax that an average person gets four times day is good enough to fool 5000 Britons each year.

I am in the wrong business.

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