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by dylan604 1671 days ago
Right? Their prince was the first email scam of note, and probably one of the longest running ones at that. Also, you know VPN/VoIP numbers exist to help mask the identity/location of scammers. Just in case some of that might have slipped the mind of some peeps.
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FDSGSG 1671 days ago
Nobody would choose to use a Nigerian VPN while logging into stolen accounts. This is really obvious.

> Their prince was the first email scam of note, and probably one of the longest running ones at that.

And all of the Nigerian prince spammers are incredibly unsophisticated. Anyone in the industry can tell you this, you can just look at the manner in which they send their emails.

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dylan604 1671 days ago
Nobody you say? Sounds like the perfect cover then. Or, you know, for the lulz.
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FDSGSG 1671 days ago
Almost anything is possible, but this is still by far the least likely explanation.

Why needlessly alert the victim when you could just choose a proxy in their city?

>Sounds like the perfect cover then

How would that even work? It's not like this would provide any kind of an advantage. In what kind of a threat model could this possibly be beneficial?

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