On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:56 +0000 (GMT), (Steve
Harris) wrote:

In article ,
(Jaques d'Alltrades) wrote:

Many who are enticed to meet their contacts (esp. in Nigeria) are
kidnapped.

Very few go to Nigeria now because of it's reputation. It's much more
usual to get the fool to go to Amsterdam or other "safe" places. Most of
the fools who make the journey pay up without trouble. It is far too
much effort to kidnap and hold someone in Europe if they won't pay,

The stories about kidnaps and violence are circulated in an
understandable desire to frighten people off doing something silly.

Your modern Nigerian conman is extremely professional.

Earlier this year the BBC reported that the police had stated that the
average UK sucker had got caught for UKP17,500 .

Re_Amsterdam one letter I had actually gave a Dutch mobile phone
number.
--
Martin