Re: [Asrg] Statistics on Nigerian 419 Spam

Yeah they do that. It shameful. I am writing an artilce "Cost of Nigerian Spam"

I have written about Nigerian 419 in the past.. Incidentally, i spoke to a Nigerian ISP , he estimates that Incoming SPAM traffic is about 50% and close to $40,000 a year. However, the ISP does not keep track of outgoing spam. Keep in mind that Nigerian Internet Traffic is non-local, for example most email sent within Nigerian (local) still get routed via some International backbone provider. My initial observations are these:

A) Nigerian outgoing spam imposes a certain cost on the rest of the world

b) Incoming spam to Nigeria poses a high burden cost on local Intenet connectivity

Spam to and fro that part of the world might be a two edge blade, impacting technology development, and imposing high email cleaning costs on the rest of the world

In a message dated 3/23/2005 12:06:40 PM Central Standard Time, pbaker at verisign.com writes:

One of the scammers recently asked for my help moving $32 million in 419 scam profits out of Nigeria...

What do you want the figures for? There are estimates that put the damage at $500 million a year, the gangs almost certainly only make a fraction of that.