419ers morph into Murder Incorporated

**radio667** · 07-20-2004, 08:04 AM

from the register .... It's easy to dismiss Nigerian 419 advance fee fraudsters as a bunch of chancers who prey on the gullible and the greedy and occasionally get lucky. After all, a fool and his money are soon parted, and the victims of these scams have brought financial misfortune on themselves, isn't that right?

However, reader BW has just received a particularly nasty piece of work with the Lads from Lagos written all over it. He notes:

This is a rather sinister twist on 419, where instead of just duping the greedy and stupid, this actually will terrify some new web users, like my grandparents. Imagine this was within the first 100 emails you had ever seen...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07..._incorporated/

07-20-2004, 08:04 AM	#1
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,752 Downloads: 2	419ers morph into Murder Incorporated from the register .... It's easy to dismiss Nigerian 419 advance fee fraudsters as a bunch of chancers who prey on the gullible and the greedy and occasionally get lucky. After all, a fool and his money are soon parted, and the victims of these scams have brought financial misfortune on themselves, isn't that right? However, reader BW has just received a particularly nasty piece of work with the Lads from Lagos written all over it. He notes: This is a rather sinister twist on 419, where instead of just duping the greedy and stupid, this actually will terrify some new web users, like my grandparents. Imagine this was within the first 100 emails you had ever seen... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07..._incorporated/ __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

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