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Link to this site -- www.419scams.com -- Link to this site
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the ************************ ------- WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THESE SCAM ARTISTS? ------- Not much. We don't want to sound fatalistic, but the reality is that the scam artists hide behind untraceable email addresses, sending their scam letters from pay-by-the-hour Internet Cafes. The governments of Africa are generally in a survival mode, with little interest in dealing with some Internet scam artist in a local village. There are always bigger fish to fry. Plus we have actually talked with West African government and business officials about their perception of these 419 scams. They have expressed amazement that anyone could be fooled by the empty promises contained in emails from a stranger in Africa. In their eyes, the culpability goes both ways. "Who could be such a fool to give money to someone they have never met?" This is a valid question for all of us to ponder... What we have done at The Freeman Institute is to provide a free service to warn individuals who may be flirting with the idea of great wealth coming their way. Our motto is: Run, don't walk, away from these scams and then do what you can to warn people about this pervasive problem. Feel free to provide a link to www.freemaninstitute.com/419.htm -- so that more people can see the truth about these 419 scams. ********************************* © Copyright, 2003 The
Freeman Institute. All rights reserved. Nothing on this
page may be used without explicit written permission. Check
out the main page of Scam Central Forward a copy of a 419 letter to The Freeman Institute. We just might list it here in attempt to warn others. Tell us your story. Courtesy of The Freeman Institute ******************************************************** For hard numbers, the Australian Institute of Criminology article and the US Dept. of State pub. 10465 will prepare you better than this site will. Really good backgrounders. From these you will get an idea of the scope of this scam. There are already inter-governmental relationships established over this issue.
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