Some of them have a range of appeals - if you don't fall for the appeal
to your greed, then perhaps you'd like to help a poor widow or orphan
get what's theirs by rights, but stolen by evil villains who can be
circumvented if only you help by lending the use of your bank account.
In fact, the appeal to the better side of our nature is quite a common
feature of scams, from the suffering orphans who nevertheless have
access to the equipment to spam the newsgroups to the door-to-door
collectors for money to help anything from animals to sufferers from
various diseases, but who never send a cent in. It's not that uncommon
for one of the perfectly reputable local charities to make a public
announcement that no, they *aren't* doing any door-to-door canvassing
right now, please don't donate to anyone who claims to be collecting for
them.

And it's surprising how many people who are normally quite intelligent
fall for scams. There have been cases of educated people who fell really
hard for these emails.

Cheryl