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What are the email scammers up to now?

tlambert | March 23, 2010

I imagine that by now almost everyone on the planet with an email address has received at least one email from Nigeria offering you a handsome fee to help retrieve millions of dollars that have been tied up somehow, so the returns from this scam are likely declining. The scammers are now turning to romance scams, where they pretend to fall in love with their victim before defrauding them. Carmen has the details.

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