According to New Scientist, Joshua Oyeniyi Aransiola, a sociologist at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife has the inside scoop on the Nigerian email scammers and it turns out their secret to success is voodoo:
Those unfamiliar with Nigerian culture might find one of the study’s findings particularly surprising – scammers make regular use of voodoo. As one Yahoo Boy put it: “The Voodoo thing exists for real, I have used it but I have stopped because of the fear of repercussion. With the aid of Voodoo the money comes faster. I have friends that still use it, they can collect money twice or thrice a week and it helps. I have a friend that uses a calabash filled with black substance; he hides it in his room and says incantations.”
Send me $10,000 and I’ll exorcise your firewall.
Curious Christian 
Doesn’t surprise me at all. However, I would be interested to find out what the “repercussion” is that the quoted Yahoo Boy fears. The New Scientist article is followed by a comments section where it is also interesting to find that a couple of people mention “televangelism” as an American brand of Voodoo
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/02/meet-the-yahoo-boys.html
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I would have said televangelism is more like cargo cultism than voodoo. With the exception of Bob Larson of course who seems to be channeling both.
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