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				 Re: OT:  Are People Really Dumb Enough? 
 
	If there were any chance you could find where that quote came from... well... it would be real keen.Quote: 
	
		| Originally posted by rdouglass: I read somewhere recently that Interpol estimated that on any given day there are 4 people somewhere in the world waiting in a hotel lobby for a guy from Nigeria...
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 I would almost pay petty amounts of money to hear a major U.S. news anchor say exactly that.
 
 As for people being dumb, I suppose there have always been con men.  The internet, and mass mailing, just gives them a new way to find a ripe mark.  "Three Card Monte", "Selling the Brooklyn Bridge", "Florida Real Estate", and now this.  Just a long procession.
 
 But a mass mailed scam as fantastic as this is pretty low...
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