At 8:58 AM -0500 3/7/03, Jim Youll wrote:
The numbers for the Nigerians were estimated in the last few weeks
at about one million dollars, total, for all instances of the scam
worldwide, ever. If
Maybe that's the numbers for Nigeria proper, but certainly it seems
to be earning *somebody* money:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55329,00.html
According to court records, from February to August 2002, Poet moved
$2.1 million, in amounts ranging from $9,400 to $360,000 per wire
transfer, from the accounts of Olsman Mueller & James -- a Berkley,
Michigan, law firm where she was employed -- to various bank
accounts in South Africa and Taiwan.
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