What happened to the good old days, a reader sighs. “I remember the good old days before the current cunning and sophisticated AI-generated scams, when the famous Nigerian scams were the fashionable forms of internet and email fraud,” she says. “The Nigerian scams seem quaint these days. The traditional classic was from a Nigerian prince, or wealthy person or someone high up in the government. The scam would say ‘I am Prince etc. And am currently in gaol/hiding and need to send my money abroad. Give me your bank details and I will deposit $1,000,000 in your account for safekeeping, but you can have $250,000 commission for helping.” And as happens more and more today, the old Nigerian scams worked for the crooks again and again.
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