[ILUG] CONFIDENTIAL - From Nigeria with love (gear n beag)

[Justin Mason]

McGahon, Dermot said:

> Has anyone been, interested and technically adept enough to track where
> these emails are coming from? If they are being sent within Irish legal
> jurisdiction, again, is anyone legally adept enough to know whether it might
> be possible to stamp these out. Particularily pernicious and persistent,
> this strain of conmail.

It's quite annoying; quite a lot actually does seem to come from Africa,
esp. South Africa, but often even Nigeria.  The rest generally comes from
the US.

> Reading through them, it almost feels like somebody is trying to mesmerise
> you by their stunning use of large nouns and verbs. Seriously, can anyone be
> falling for this? I suppose so, otherwise they wouldn't keep doing it.

I think it's some kind of "chinese whispers" effect.  All that complicated
english terminology filtering through multiple layers of non-native
english speakers ;)

--j.