Hi, Thursday, April 14, 2005, 12:19:02 AM, Kevin wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> people who track the spam industry. it was a newspaper article a few months >> back, either on the BBC or NY Times web sites. they were the same people >> that estimated that out of the average 100M spam messages sent out for a >> single item, they needed about 2000 respondents to make money. the Nigerian >> government acknowledges it as one of their major sources of income. > A few months back I caught a radio news show quoting $26 million had been > sent to Nigeria in the previous year. I cant say it was all SPAM related, but > my guess a lot > of it would be. Thats just from Australia. If we're into guessing games, then I guess that the overwhelming majority of that money is being sent back by migrant workers, and only a relatively tiny amount as a result of scams. That's not very much compared to GNP. 85-90% of Nigeria's GNP is from oil, at about $40 billion. Their foreign debt is over 80% of GNP. But foreign debt's not a scam. Is it...? -- Cheers, Bob
