From: Daytona 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: 419
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:54:00 +0000

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:36:36 -0000, "Alex"  wrote:

>How can anyone be fooled by this scheme.  The letters are badly written,
>unrealistic, use free web addresses (more than one), are about events
>(dictator's secret sons for example) that do not exist, etc.
>
>So why do people think that this scam actually still works?!
>

The police reckon that there's one person a day handing over a suitcase of cash
to a fraudster at a railway station as a 'participation fee' so they can join a
similar scheme.

That's the beauty of internet marketing; it only needs one successful hit.

I think perhaps the government should nationalise it, and create the stupid tax
Mk II.

Daytona