419 has now jumped to assassination threats

Slashdot reports that 419 scams are now threatening assassination of their victims.

The Slashdot article references this Register article.

My network connection here is acting up, so I can't give you much more than the links and the idea that this is going to be quite scary for those that get these, especially if they are the types that fell for the original version of the scam.

Posted by Eric at July 19, 2004 03:57 PM | TrackBack