New type of “Nigerian” scam
Those “Nigerian” scammers keep coming up with new angles. This time it’s dying soldiers in Iraq. PC World reports:
A twist on the classic Nigerian e-mail scam that steals from the plot of the George Clooney movie Three Kings is hitting in-boxes, Symantec Corp. said Monday.
In these e-mails, a U.S. soldier based in Iraq claims that he has found a horde of cash or gold, a plot point central to the 1999 film. The e-mail explains that the total “haul,” which is often pegged at US$750 million but can vary wildly from spam run to spam run, has been split among the men who found it. The soldier’s take: $20 million. Unfortunately, after he was cashiered from the army and returned to Iraq to work as — tugging at the heartstrings — a humanitarian worker, he was injured by a roadside bomb and now is on his deathbed.
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