15.30, Tuesday 8 Oct 2002

Nice statistic in this BBC News article on the Nigeria money-moving scam (you've probably received the spams -- you'll get a cut of the how-ever-many million dollars if you send only a little money over to help pay the bribes to get the cash out of Africa): "NCIS estimates that up to five Americans are sitting in hotel lobbies in London everyday waiting to meet people connected with this con".