Why Nigerian Scammers Say They're From Nigeria  We all get them:
scam emails that claim to be able to make us millionaires
overnight. But why are they so terribly unconvincing? And why do
they even admit to being based in places like Nigeria? A
Microsoft researcher claims to have the answer.  In particular,
we're talking about the offers to cut you into a deal, which
offer a healthy—say 5 or 10 percent—cut of the profits. They
normally end up requiring a small transfer of money from the
person who's being scammed to enable the deal to take place.
Then another transfer of money, then another until... everything
goes quiet.  These scams are normally know as "Nigerian scams",
because that's where they tend to originate from, but you might
also know them by their proper name: Advance fee fraud. And they
work! Last year, one Nigerian fraudster received a 12-year jail
sentence after scamming $1.3 million from victims.  But why on
Earth are the emails written to sound so hugely unbelievable?
Who the hell is going to