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30 years of criminal evolution

Just to show how far things have come, today it seems almost inconceivable that such a social engineering scam campaign would be run via postal mail when email is cheaper, faster, and more convenient. What is now a century-old scam technique is perhaps even more effective, more capable, and more pernicious today than it was a century or even three decades ago because of networked computers, which we can attribute in a perverse way to Metcalfe's Law—the growth of the internet into a ubiquitous tool for communications has made networked computers the new platform, replacing the typed letter and postal service.

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