Four Corners
Meet the Scammers
TV-PG
2019 • E2 Feb 10, 2019 60mTheir voices are persuasive, their emails insistent and they have proven to be remarkably successful at conning countless people into handing over their money.
Internet scamming began in the early days of email with appeals from Nigerian 'princes' asking for help to regain their missing money.
From those amateurish beginnings, the scammers watched, learned and refined their techniques.
What started out as a simple scam from West Africa has now morphed into a global enterprise, conning people on an industrial scale.
Internet scamming began in the early days of email with appeals from Nigerian 'princes' asking for help to regain their missing money.
From those amateurish beginnings, the scammers watched, learned and refined their techniques.
What started out as a simple scam from West Africa has now morphed into a global enterprise, conning people on an industrial scale.