419ers morph into Murder Incorporated

Found on The Register on Sunday, 18 July 2004
Browse Pranks

It's easy to dismiss Nigerian 419 advance fee fraudsters as a bunch of chancers who prey on the gullible and the greedy and occasionally get lucky. After all, a fool and his money are soon parted, and the victims of these scams have brought financial misfortune on themselves, isn't that right?

This is a rather sinister twist on 419, where instead of just duping the greedy and stupid, this actually will terrify some new web users, like my grandparents. Imagine this was within the first 100 emails you had ever seen...

I wonder how many will actually read this. Many may have received it, but deleted it with the daily spam. I guess we're facing a worldwide massmurdering, keeping in mind that several million copies of each spam are sent out. This will be a very busy anniversary...