NigerianEmailScam

About the same time the FBI issued a warning this week that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Assistant Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski didn't actually write an email akin to the Nigerian letter, I received a curious email from an Irish bank.OK, it came from a university email address. But...

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...