Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 11:54 AM Monday 7/7/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>I've seen these myself, but I'm not sure if they came from Iraq.  Most
>of these still come from Nigeria, and the basic concept is identical
>in all of them (modern equivalents of the Spanish Prisoner scam,
>basically), the only difference being some superficial parameters.  I
>think some of them might also come from phish hatcheries in Korea and
>Romania, but most still come from Nigeria because of the virtually
>nonexistent enforcement of laws against the practice there.


I didn't forward all the headers, but "Sgt. Jones" used a rocketmail 
address.  However, my purpose in forwarding it was to share my 
amusement that the would-be scammers have made the "superficial" 
change from Nigeria to Iraq . . .


. . . ronn!  :)