Thursday, 21. June 2012
Topic: WEB - on June 21, 2012 at 8:18:00 AM CEST
Nigerian scams are hyper-efficient idiot finders
The bigger the lie, the bigger the pile of cash scammers scoop, says MSFT boffin
A Microsoft researcher, Cormac Herley, has penned a paper titled “Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?” (PDF), and concludes the whoppers the scam includes are actually a very efficient way of finding likely targets.
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