Land of Oz

Nigerian Riches

Gullible: easily duped or cheated
Nigeria: country W Africa bordering on Gulf of Guinea; a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, formerly a colony & protectorate

Nigeria + spam + gullible^2 = NOT$

I'm really tired of seeing a few hundred spams in my email basket every day. And why are they there? Because of idiots like you who respond to them. I just read yet another news article about some guy who lost thousands in a Nigerian oil money scam. He actually traveled down there to collect and almost got himself killed besides.

Think about this for a minute. Do you really think there's some dude in Nigeria who just happens to have $12.7 million floating around and he's contacting you for help? Don't you think he'd find someone he knew a little closer if all this was even remotely legit? How stupid and greedy do you have to be to send your bank account number or cash to one of these folks? This is supposed to be a $100 million a year industry in Africa. Suckering folks into sending them big bucks for some supposedly lost multi-million dollar account that they would so love to share with you out of the goodness of their heart. Please - people - think a minute.

That kind of greed is bad enough, but what goes through the mind of someone who will order medicine from an email that can't even spell the medicine correctly? v1agrA for heaven's sake. Yes, doctors do have lousy handwriting, but this is typed!! Are you actually going to put something like that in your mouth?

The main reason there is so much spam is that it pays. Maybe only one per thousand or so respond, but when you send out millions of messages -- even misspelled and written to a first grade level -- and you get a handful of responses, you're making money. Spam is practically free to send. Almost anything back is profit. Now quit it!!