Why do people actually fall for those email schemes like nigerian lottery?

I'm not sure. I can tell just by the subject and from field if it's a scammer or not, so I don't even bother opening them.

But if you are interested in scams like that, check out http://www.419eater.com/ It is a website about a guy that does what is called "scam baiting." That is when they enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst they are doing this, they are helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves.

It's fun to read. I think you'll enjoy it. One scam-baiter managed to get a scammer to take a photo of himself shirtless with red paint marked on him, so as to join the "Holy Church of The Order of The Red Breast". Classic.

People believe they can actually get "something for nothing" as the saying is. FREE MONEY! Until they've been taken to the cleaners by the scammers, they won't believe it. And Yes, I DO personally know someone who fell for this years ago and had her entire checking and savings wiped out and her credit cards maxed. It took her years to overcome this. Dumb? Yes.

do you know anyone who has fallen for one or any of them personally?

you are smart?? why do you have to ask why they fall for them, if they do? wouldn,t such a smart person know why people or such people do such things?

you if you can i would appreciate a personal response, as to do you know anyone personally who has fallen for such "schemes"

(i will admit some of them sound almost convincing and very tempting, they have improved over the years.) but still the fauds they are

because they think its for real they refuse to listen. if u knew how much schemes email i receive everyday you wouldn't believe it.

human nature is to get something for "nutten" and many of those scames offer just that