Thursday, May 23, 2002

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That Nigerian scam

You know that Nigerian email scam that never stops showing up in your inbox? Roger Ebert, in the current installment of his monthly column for Yahoo Internet Life, cites that scam as the "third to fifth largest industry in Nigeria."

If we could eradicate spam, would the Nigerian economy collapse?

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Posted by William Shunn on May 23, 2002 10:23 AM |

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