I've been busy with an incredible financial matter that just dropped into my lap via e-mail. It seems that a group of Nigerian investors have amassed a sum of Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars as commission for oil sales contracts. In order to get it into this country, they need to transfer it into someone's U.S. bank account. Well, as luck would have it, they picked mine! Can you believe it? I've given them all the numbers and passwords for my savings and credit card accounts and within 10-14 days, they're going to transfer the money into my account for safekeeping and then, after they get to this country, I will give them the money back, minus my 15% commission. Do you realize how much money that is? Wow. Am I gonna be rich!
Seriously: I've now gotten well over a hundred of these e-mail offers to send all my banking info to total strangers in another country…usually Nigeria but occasionally others. If you don't know all about this scam, the details are spelled out here…but what I still want to know is: How much is anyone making off this racket? Are people really falling for it?