It absolutely amazes me that so many people are taken in by this level of scam. Any savvy web people who have been around awhile look at this stuff at a glance and say yeah right. Yet after Dateline did their report on it, I was more than a little nervous about the people who are scammed. It is clear there is one key factor in all of this that rings true. If it sounds too good to be true! RUN... Don't let these people toy with your personal greed. Without your hope of getting something for nothing, the scam simply does not work. Yet it has been years on the web and they are still there. Why? Simple because everyone still thinks they found something no one knows about. Doubt it ! Get real "Wake up!" Go out and breath some fresh air. Whatever it takes but please no one gives money away! Surely your parents clued you on this topic. Things change no doubt, but trust me NOT THIS!

The most familiar Nigerian scam is an e-mail offering lots of free money in exchange for helping someone with a name like Barrister Richard Okoya. The offer varies, but the theme is the same — help a downtrodden victim recover a large sum of money trapped in an overseas bank, and you will be rewarded handsomely.

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