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Got any good examples of these early scams?


I'm not aware of any good centralized collection of them. But the articles written on the amazing durability of the scam usually include an example or two:

https://priceonomics.com/the-email-scam-with-centuries-of-hi... http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/spanish_prisoner_swin... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-9-lives-of-the-spa...


Wow, these are very similar to the 'modern' scam emails. Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea how old this scam was.




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