[plug] Scams apparently live on after arrests

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed May 29 16:15:17 WST 2002


> Interesting thing about this one is that even what it's *pretending*
> to be true would be illegal. I think all the others I've had
> (including an hilarious one from "Mobutu Sese-Seko's widow", whose
> billions - not millions - had been "frozen", the poor dear) have at
> least pretended that the sender is somehow a victim of circumstance,
> rather than a would-be crook.

Actually, this kind of makes sense. People taken in are less likely to 
run to the police, after all, when they realise they got done over while 
trying to assist a criminal.

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Craig Ringer
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