Posted
9/28/2004 07:22:00 PM
by Douglas
Jeff Noble, you're a genius. The hunters become the
hunted.Miriam was an obvious fraud — one of dozens of fictitious characters used by international criminals to separate gullible computer users from their cash. Dan was the brainchild of 27-year-old Houston Web designer Jeff Noble, out to strike a blow for cyber chumps everywhere with his satiric Web site, www.reversescam.com.
I exchanged a few emails with a Nigerian banker a
while back, and I too was amazed at how seemingly illiterate these scammer's English was. Well, not so much surprised at that, per se, but surprised that anyone would read broken English and be suckered into the scam.
The average is 100.