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Wow, that’s like half their princes.
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80 Nigerian Princes? Wow, that is something to behold…
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I recently ran across my collection of snail mail Nigerian (and Romanian and South African) letters.
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Why did I listen to Spin Doctors? If I’d known there were that many, my strategy would’ve been a bit different…
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I wonder if this will go further. Among the Nigerian phishing scams I’ve run into while operating the mailserver’s Hormel Skimmers; there was a definite Nigeria/UK connection.
The higher volume tier one operators commonly geolocated to Lagos and vicinity; but if they got a bite the follow up shifted to the London area.
Server logs are slightly thin stuff for organized crime anthropology; but I assumed that the nontrivial diaspora provided the necessary interpersonal connections; while simple pragmatism dictated that the most promising leads be forwarded to the agents with the greatest facility in reasonably idiomatic English once identified; in absence of a better theory.
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