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[SpamCop-List] Re: Ebay Con Spam

Marjolein Katsma nobody at spamcop.net
Mon Mar 29 21:33:19 EST 2004


J.T. (user at domain.invalid) wrote in news:c49oqk$dbe$1 at news.spamcop.net:

> That's not the ONLY group who is vulnerable 
> to Internet scams, but they are a huge fraud-victim group.  Its 
> frustrating, and sad, to try to work prevention programs with this 
> population.  So many elderly folks are so trusting, and yet believe 
> themselves to be quite savvy about people.  Still, many fall prey to
> an unbelievable number of scams, despite their intelligence and wisdom
> about "real world" matters.

Fortunately, the "seniors" actually seem to be *less* susceptible to scams 
than the youngsters are...

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040322S0011


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