[78-L] Just curious.. ^

[Michael Biel]

>>Don't they get tired of playing this game? Hasn't
>> anybody ever noticed that it doesn't work?  dl 

From: Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com>
> Actually, it does work well enough for the scammers to make
> money at it. It costs almost nothing to send an e-mail to
> millions of people.  If only a few people take the bait,
> they'll turn a profit. If they find someone suffering
> from dementia they can make a lot. - Jeff Lichtman

Remember that they were doing this when it cost them money to send out
snail mail letters prior to the development of email.  Back in the 70s I
sent a letter to Nigerian Radio for a verification and in addition to
that I got several letters with nice stamps on them, neatly individually
typed, with the same type of scams being pulled today. It got to the
point where the radio guidebooks mentioned that sending letters to
Nigeria would result in these letters.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com