ISPs fail to stop Nigerian scamster spamsters
Source: The Inquirer
THE "NIGERIAN SPAM" emails are the bane of an online journalist's existence. We post our email address for reader correspondence but everyday have to sort the genuine communications from the rubbish. Here at The INQUIRER, it is not uncommon to receive ,amu more than 10 of these scam letters each day and our US contacts in various fields tell us that they often receive even more.
So what are these emails?
Almost inevitably they are from someone who claims to have some kind of access to a not-so-small fortune - $ 78 million was in recent emails - and they just need a person like yourself to help them get their hands on it. Of course they will share the profits with you, as much as 25 or 30% is commonly mentioned. All they really need is all the details of some bank account that you hold…
