Nigerian 4-1-9 Scam
February 2nd, 2006I’m intrigued by a recent flood of 419 scams, all making it past Yahoo! Mail spam filters. Where I was recieving about one or two a day, now I’m recieving 10 or more. The account is very old, and must be on multiple spam lists by now. I’m less interested in how they got my address - but in why Yahoo! Mail is not catching these.
Anyway, I usually skim through until I see a large dollar amount. When someone mentions “$17,000,000″ and/or appeals to my christian charity [in helping steel/smuggle money, no less!] I know it’s a 419 scam and report it as such.
Come on, Yahoo! Get your filters tuned already … and keep this dreck from my inbox. Who know? Maybe the 1,001st offer will intrigue me enough to get involved, while the first 1,000 all failed. It could happen!
