Markus said...

I remember reading a nice article on scams. It said, among other things, that victims of a scam are statistically more likely to fall for another scam in the future, not less. There was a beatiful example, a nigerian-style scam that went somewhat like this: "Hello, I'm Jose Vargas from the Internet Security Department of Caracas Police, Venezuela. We have recently apprehended a group of Internet criminals that took money from people, posing as lawyers of a certain Nigerian prince. We have liberated 2.000.000 USD from that group and Venezuelan law dictates that the money must be returned to the people they tricked. Your name and address were found among the criminals' records, so I'm contacting you in order to return the sum of $2000 USD that was taken from you according to those records. Please send me your bank account number, along with the obligatory foreign tax payment of $50 so that I can authorize the transfer. Cpt. Jose Vargas Internet Security Department Caracas Police" A lot of people fell for…