On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:24:51AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Wed, Mar 27, 2002, Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXXXXXX | > > XXXXXX COTE D' IVOIRE | > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX | | <snip> | | > What are you all's opinion of this letter? Did anyone else respond to | > the others? Is anyone going to help this person by visiting that part | > of the world? Is there anyone on this list living in Abidjan? | | (One of my canned rants) | | The above is an example of the "Nigerian Scam", also called 419 Letters, | or just plain 419.
There's also a Congo variation I've actually received. -D -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
