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The lads from Lagos must be hard up. They aren’t even making a decent effort at scamming us decedent Westerners anymore. At least if this gem is anything to go by: Dear Friend i verry happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of  your help in UNITED KINDOM [...]

I haven’t received a 419 in the post for a while and I was just thinking as much the other day. Lo and behold as if my mind was being read at that time I got one this morning. It’s another lottery scam this time from Germany. From “State Lottery Agent BOESCHE” to be exact. [...]

Regular visitors might have seen my previous entries about some 419 scams that I received in the post. For those who do not know what 419 means – it is a form of advance fee fraud. You might know them from spam e-mails or snail mail that claim you have won a share in some [...]

I have an apology to make. Actually I have two. To any person living in China or India, thank you for trying to leave a comment on my site. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the time and effort that you went through to compose your less than useless comment. Sadly though, it was just [...]

I haven’t recieved a 419 in a while. Either by post or e-mail but one arrived in my inbox early this morning. Spamassassain had flagged it as spam and I was about to delete it but I noticed that it claimed to be an Irish lottery. The Irish Lottery P O Box 1010 11 G [...]

Obsessing as I do over my log files I noticed a crawler indexing every page on my blog. Nothing unusual there except it was a crawler I had never seen before and was rapidly going through my site. In their useragent string was a URL so off I went there to find out some more. [...]

I got another 419 in the post last week. Like the previous ones it is a lottery scam. But unlike the others, this one came from Amsterdam and not Malaga. This one also looks very professional with proper professional headed paper that certainly wasn’t created by a bunch of Nigerians with a PC, a HP [...]