Wednesday, June 20, 2012

"Engineering analysis of 'Nigerian scammers'"

From Improbable Research:
Cormac Herley (pictured here) attempted an engineering analysis of some of the people who shared the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for literature.


Herley’s study, which you can download, is:
Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?“, Cormac Herley, Proc. WEIS 2012. Herley is based at Microsoft Research.