CLAYTON CRAMER SUGGESTS AN AL QAEDA ANGLE to the growth of Nigerian scam-spam.

I think he’s wrong here. My Nigerian extended family is in the non-Muslim south, and they have many stories to tell of email scammers in Lagos. I think that’s where most of these things come from. I think the increase in volume is evidence of increasing Internet penetration, and bandwidth, more than anything else. But hey, I could be wrong.