Re: [Asrg] Do we need to do anything?

[Jim Youll <jim@media.mit.edu>]

At 12:47 -0500 3/7/03, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> At 8:58 AM -0500 3/7/03, Jim Youll wrote:
> > The numbers for the Nigerians were estimated in the last few weeks 
> > at about one million dollars, total, for all instances of the scam 
> > worldwide, ever. If
> Maybe that's the numbers for Nigeria proper, but certainly it seems 
> to be earning *somebody* money:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55329,00.html
> > According to court records, from February to August 2002, Poet 
> > moved $2.1 million, in amounts ranging from $9,400 to $360,000 per 
> > wire transfer, from the accounts of Olsman Mueller & James -- a 
> > Berkley, Michigan, law firm where she was employed -- to various 
> > bank accounts in South Africa and Taiwan.
I didn't see that particular story, but ...

a) there's enforcement happening at the other end now, and against 
scams generally, so... the economic disincentive for large-scale 
high-profit scams (on and off the net) comes from law and criminal 
punishment, not the mechanisms in any case.

b) I intuit that the volume of messages sent does not really 
correlate to the response rate (as it would for the sale of miracle 
products and herbal remedies and so on). Greed-driven scams are a 
different business

c) this doesn't go to the main points about why disposable or 
scope-bounded addresses can be useful at times.
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