OT: Are People Really Dumb Enough?

[rdouglass]

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

Well I miss quoted it a little - I was quoting from memory. But here is the actual paragraph:

If it weren't so serious, it would be comical. The National Criminal Intelligence Service estimates that up to five Americans are waiting in London hotel lobbies every day to meet people connected with Nigerian e-mail scams. Codenamed 419, the con trick is one of the most pervasive in the rising tide of spam - the buzz word for unwanted e-mail - that is clogging inboxes the world over.

And here is the URL:

http://www.derekwyattmp.co.uk/nation...-01-03_st.html

Kinda' scary there are so many people without a lot 'on the ball'. We should be telling them something like: "Don't go upstairs without a flashlight!"