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Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever

2 years ago by jeffw to c/technology

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Move over Nigerian Princes. A new generation of "Yahoo boys" are fine-tuning social engineering techniques and targeting small businesses.
bjoern_tantau 9 points 2 years ago

For some reason I'm proud of them.

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db2 1 point 2 years ago

Alternate title: People are dumber than ever

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HungryJerboa 56 points 2 years ago

This is disingenuous. Scammers have gotten smarter over the years and not everybody is technologically savvy. All it takes is a perfect storm of factors for even the most experienced people to fall prey to scams.

Stop victim blaming and focus on education. It's the only way this gets better.

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nossaquesapao 11 points 2 years ago

People think they're immune to scams, but all it takes is a moment of vulnerability, some great coincidence, some peer pressure, or something i these lines, and they will fall victim. I've seen so many intelligent and tech-savvy people fall for so many scams over the years...

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Treczoks -4 points 2 years ago

If we can get the idiots off the net by them getting ripped off, maybe the internet will get better again.

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