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It's the new users, not the old hacks
GrimmReaperSound 28th Jul 2009
The Internet has 1.661 billion users (see http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm).
The growth is linear with about 65 million new users per year.
That's 65 million fresh targets per year who have never heard of any Internet scams.
Just because you and everybody you might know has heard of it, don't generilize to the entire Internet. The Internet is a heck of a lot bigger than you think.
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