Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:11:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nigerian Letters
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com> wrote:
> I started accumulating email in a mailbox called
> 'SCAM' three or four years
> ago.  More disk space than sense, I suppose.  The
> total to date is
> 157.  The first couple of years it was just one or
> two per year.  Beginning
> in 2002 it's averaged one or two per week.  I'm
> guessing that's when the
> authors of these things started buying lists in
> earnest.  I often get
> duplicates.
>

Usually several per day for me, if I include all my
email accounts.  It's by far surpassed the "Send $5
and pass this letter to five friends" Ponzi schemes
that were so common a few years ago.

Rich

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