2003jan14. Article on Nigerian email scam.
Secret Service agents went after 250 suspected African scammers operating out of the United States last year, involving – get this – $85.5 million in losses.Nice math. Nowhere in the article does it state that each scammer was only able to take one victim.That means the average victim handed over no less than $342,000 to the scammers to keep the bogus money-transfer scheme in play.