Yeah they do that. It shameful. I am writing an artilce "Cost of
Nigerian Spam"
I have written about Nigerian 419 in the past.. Incidentally, i spoke to a
Nigerian ISP , he estimates that Incoming SPAM traffic is about 50% and
close to $40,000 a year. However, the ISP does not keep track of outgoing
spam. Keep in mind that Nigerian Internet Traffic is non-local, for example
most
email sent within Nigerian (local) still get routed via some International
backbone provider. My initial observations are these:
A) Nigerian outgoing spam imposes a certain cost on the rest of the world
b) Incoming spam to Nigeria poses a high burden cost on local Intenet
connectivity
Spam to and fro that part of the world might be a two edge blade, impacting
technology development, and imposing high email cleaning costs on the rest
of the world
In a message dated 3/23/2005 12:06:40 PM Central Standard Time,
pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com writes:
One of the scammers recently asked for my help moving $32 million in 419
scam profits out of Nigeria...
What do you want the figures for? There are estimates that put the damage at
$500 million a year, the gangs almost certainly only make a fraction of that.
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