"I. P. Yurin" wrote in message
.. .
Believe it...people have made fortunes with the Nigeria e-mail scams and
its
variations. And greedy people continue to keep falling for it..they
deserve

Truer words were never spoken. Last year, the last year these figures are
availale, over $55M US dollars were separated from American bank accounts
for
those too friggin gullible for these poor pleas for help in hiding scads
o $$$

Most of those defrauded were from South of the Mason Dixon line. "Nuff
said.

Interesting! Can you gimme a source for that $55M US figure?




The US Treasury doesn't give a specific dollar amount per year, but they do
say this:

"Indications are that Advance Fee Fraud grosses hundreds of millions of
dollars annually and the losses are continuing to escalate. In all
likelihood, there are victims who do not report their losses to authorities
due to either fear or embarrassment."

This is from:

http://www.treas.gov/usss/alert419.shtml

I didn't notice any mention of any particular area, but dumbasses with more
money than brains can be found most anywhere in the US.

Frank Dresser

Thanks for the URL, comrade Dresser!

Especially revealing was the remark that one of the biggest engines of
this industry is "the greed of foreigners."

The capitalists eat their own!


--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)