From: Glenn McCalley (glenn@combatcatering.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 10:32:13 PDT
Not necessarily so. Or, almost not necessarily so.
In "real" life we have a web development and technical services business.
The thing about these scams is that it costs the scammer --nothing-- to
perpetrate. E-Mail from Africa is essentially free. $2.00 for a good color
copy of a cashiers check or whatever. $12 for FedEx. For $15 he's got a
shot at a $5,000 payoff. 300 to 1 payback is worth a chance.
Same thing for spam. The cost to send the billions of spams is negligible.
All it takes is a miniscule return to be profitable 'cause there isn't any
expense (to the spammer) to speak of. Some garbage product that is not
worth regular direct mail (postal) because the piece cost to deliver is too
high becomes instantly profitable as spam. It won't go away until the
economics change.
Glenn "we just put a deposit on a deuce" McCalley
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cole" <DavidCole@tk7.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Do you know this man? No MV content: DELETE
> I don't know about anyone else, but I've been receiving about 1 con
> proposition per day now from some place in Africa supposidly. Always a
> similar story, "my great uncle has 10 billion dollars he needs to send to
> America, etc"
>
> Someone must be making some money doing this otherwise these emails would
> not keep coming.
>
> Dave
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:32:12 -0400, m35products <m35prod@optonline.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > Guess what I got in the FedEx today?
> >
> > A check for $4500.12 !!! This is from the "associate" in the US who
owes
> > $
> > to my potential customer in Ireland. Only problem is, the FedEx came
> > from
> > Nigeria. The schist-head in Nigeria...er, "Ireland"... wants me to send
> > him
> > a power steering "computer" (his description) worth $1000, and send him
a
> > check for the balance. Right.
> >
> > What I have done is to (illegally) photocopy thirty $100 bills and sent
> > them
> > to him in Nigeria. I also referred him to www.419fraud.com, and sent
him
> > a
> > picture of me in front of my pistol and rifle collection, and told him I
> > was
> > contemplating a hunting trip to his country, that I was particularly
> > interested in shooting a "long pig" and could we meet for a drink.
> >
> > I did not send him the "computer", by the way.
> >
> > Arthur "I was born at night, but not last night" Bloom
> > www.M35products.com
> >
> > PS personal to Joe Young:
> > Want to come along on my safari? It might help you unwind to shoot a few
> > erect bipeds.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Dave
>
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