OT: Are People Really Dumb Enough?

[Loser]

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...

If there were any chance you could find where that quote came from... well... it would be real keen.

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...