Yes, in retrospect, that came out a little wrong - use Koffi's variant as the saying to tell your friends.
As Judah was saying, they've become rather more sophisticated over time, which is probably a more worthwhile discussion. When I was doing some eBay selling, I received numerous "Nigerian scammer"-style emails giving me a "too good to be true" deal. Interestingly, eBay sent along accompanying emails warning me that this was a suspected fraudster! "Trust no one" is an ideology not only keeps you safe from alien infiltrators, but works pretty good for Internet fraud, too. -DMZ On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:24 -0400, Koffi Kpetigo wrote: > David Zakar wrote: > > Sorry if that sounds obnoxious, but "look out for phishers" is about as > > obvious as "keep your system patched" and "don't send money to people in > > Nigeria". You may as well just say "hey, you need to teach your friends > > to be Internet savvy!". > > or... "don't send money to people YOU DON'T KNOW in Nigeria"
