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    Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:31 AM
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    « Americans Duped by Email Scams »

    DateFriday, October 27, 2006 at 08:31AM
    Email fraud alone cost consumers US$630 million between 2004 and 2005.

    Macleans.ca | Top Stories | Life | Pornography, gambling, lies, theft and terrorism: The Internet sucks

    For some reason, this number is not terribly surprising. Not even a little bit.  Americans [generally] have a deep seated desire to get rich quick, by any means possible, the easier the better.  To think that an unknown person from around the world wants to give them $40 million, and all they have to do is send $2500 for an airplane ticket is just silly and irresponsible. You get what you pay for ;-)

    Funny that Macleans calls it email fraud - I wonder how much is wasted on lottery systems?

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