Forget about greed. How about just plain stupidity. I think people who fall for this today must have come out of a cave, or have been in a coma for the past umpteen years.

With the amount of money that those people have made off of that scam, and others, I often wonder if the U.S. government isn't behind this too, not just Nigerian officials.

At any rate, it's not only Nigerians who are profiting from these scams, but other criminal entrepreneurs around the world are giving it a try, as well.