The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

The most inept criminals on Earth?

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I am amazed by the success that criminals have with simple
"phishing" emails, given how implausibly illiterate most of their
efforts are.

But is there really anyone so stupid as to believe this one? (click
to enlarge). Even allowing for the fact that the fraudsters have
cleverly set up a "Directgov.gov" domain to imitate Directgov.co.uk for purposes even more nefarious than the original's? Is there no honour among thieves these days?

But then, there are people stupid enough to vote Labour on the basis of similar promises…

One response to “The most inept criminals on Earth?”

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    tbrrob

    Speaking as some one who works in the industry it’s simple mathematics. You email enough people some idiot is bound to bite.
    For example — if you email 1,000,000 people you’d probably only need 10 to 20 people to bite for you to see decent return on investment on this scam.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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