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? asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo MailAbuse and Spam · 10 years ago

Do you get more email from scammers than you did a year ago?

Latest one is is a dying woman in madrid offering $1 million to do charitable deeds, traced back to lagos, Nigeria. Funny, but really low.

I've received a lot more 419 emails in the last couple of months, than i did in the previous year, but they're no longer all from west africa.

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  • 10 years ago
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    A lot of Nigerian scammers are now smart enough to route their emails through proxy servers to hide their real location. They know that if someone looks up their IP address and sees they are in Nigeria that it's a scam, so they now route through servers in Spain, Netherlands, UK, etc

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