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After a long absence, I’ve suddenly become deluged with variations on the Nigerian e-mail scam over the last few days. Probably a dozen of those have made it through my spam filters in that span, surpassing the amount I received the previous year.
Have others of you noticed the same phenomenon or am I just lucky?
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I’ve noticed a surge in “new dating site” advertisements that make it through the filter, but not Nigerian 411 scams.
Funny thing with the Nigerian schemes – – the US Secret Service used to take an active role in investigating those scams. They had a website with contact information, an e-mail address you could forward the solicitations to, etc. When I used to get the solicitations I would respond excitedly and tell them to fax all the information immediately and then give them the Secret Service fax number. But then that program seemed to fall off, and now the FBI and FTC seem to be the most active (if at all).
Then the twist: the Nigerian scammers began sending e-mails spoofed up to look like they came from the US Secret Service. (The poor English, however, did not seem to improve.)
