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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Where do scammers come from?
I can hear a child asking it's parent: "Daddy, where do scammers come from?" You can imagine the slightly embarrassed parent answering: "Well son, when a Mummy scammer and a Daddy scammer love each other very much..."

But where DO they come from? Is it a family business passed down from one generation to the next? Is it something that school kids in certain countries aspire to be? Some want to be a soldier, others a doctor or lawyer and a small group want to grow up to become scammers?

Presumably there's money in it, otherwise there would be so many people doing all the scamming. There IS, in fact money in it if our case this week is anything to go by.

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Consumer Watchdog

Where do scammers come from?
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Where do scammers come from?I can hear a child asking it's parent: "Daddy, where do scammers come from?" You can imagine the slightly embarrassed parent answering: "Well son, when a Mummy scammer and a Daddy scammer love each other very much..."

Where do scammers come from?
I can hear a child asking it's parent: "Daddy, where do scammers come from?" You can imagine the slightly embarrassed parent answering: "Well son, when a Mummy scammer and a Daddy scammer love each other very much..."