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ohnhai
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Message 7 of 21 (359728)
10-29-2006 8:21 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by kuresu
10-29-2006 5:09 PM


this is my favorite sentence
Can you honestly help as your wife
do these spammers understand basic grammar?
Usually, yes they do. The poor grammar and such is frequently a direct attempt to generate feelings of sympathy and superiority in the reader to make them think they could take the author for a ride.

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ohnhai
Member (Idle past 5190 days)
Posts: 649
From: Melbourne, Australia
Joined: 11-17-2004


Message 9 of 21 (359730)
10-29-2006 8:27 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by Taz
10-29-2006 8:20 PM


Less now as more people have an awareness of these ”Nigerian’ Fraud attempts. But in the beginning when these first started, some city types who are used to large transactions such as these and also used to dealing with the African nations on slightly less than level deals (Yes they do happen) would have seen these as opportunities. Greed and an over familiarity with moving LARGE sums of money around led some to fall for this kind of scam.
Today most people are aware of what these schemes actually are and simply avoid them.
Edited by ohnhai, : No reason given.

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