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> I could easily see my parents falling for this.

Sometime in the mid '90s, not long after my dad got email, I decided to warn him about Nigerian scams.

Instead, he ended up telling me about how these these kind of scams started popping out of the first fax machine he turned on, back in the early '80s.



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