> Oh God, of course I have. Some weeks I get a half dozen, some weeks it
> drops off to nothing before starting up again. Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
> Liberia. Why Africa, I wonder? Why not (no jokes intended here)
> Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, or American Samoa? What is it about
> specific sub-Saharan African countries that makes them a hub for this
> kind of activity?
It's ambulance-chasing, Ken.
The reason why Nigerian Scam emails are touted from sub-Saharan Africa is
that you're supposed to imagine that the banking laws there are so loose
that you can cream them.
I don't know whether I get more irritated by the appeal-to-greed or the
racist sub-dimension.
:-(
Robin
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