Nigerian email scam

The country that brings you daily e-mail offers from esteemed princes asking for your bank account information so they can send you millions of dollars in exchange for a few thousand of your dollars, is trying to re-brand itself. The nation known for corruption, online fraud and as a drug transit...

For decades, even before the availability of easy and low-cost mass marketing via email, the Nigerian letter has existed to try to separate us from our money.As silly as some of these letters are -- with their outlandish claims (a nation's leader has chosen you to hold his money), grandiose...