[PLUG-TALK] Way off topic :-)

Dylan Reinhardt dylan at dylanreinhardt.com
Thu May 2 03:39:29 UTC 2002


At 06:15 PM 5/1/2002 -0700, Mike Witt wrote:
> This is like the weirdest (I assume) SPAM I've ever seen.
> Has anyone else seen this, or anything like it.

Yeah, it's a scam that has been around in one form or another for years.

See:  http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm 

Oddly enough, a recent court ruling suggests that hundreds of millions *have*
been smuggled out of Nigeria... just probably not into random US citizens'
bank accounts.  :-)

See: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=832886

-Dylan





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