On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:25:37AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:01, MR REUBEN SAVIMBI wrote: > > My Dear > > > > I am MR REUBEN SAVIMBI one of the favorite sons of Mr. JONAS SAVIMBI (The > > Rebel leader) ... > > [***SNIPPAGE OF SCAMAGE***] > > Treat this with the utmost confidentiality? and yet it is being sent to > whole mailing lists, as well as any other harvested email addresses that > can be found? These scams were old when I first got one from Nigeria in > 1997 - now that it is in email, it should be obvious by the third one > received that this is just some template to encourage the collection of > money for "service and legal fees, and outright bribes". > > To anyone on this list - if you wondered for a moment about the > legitimacy of any of these, put it out of your mind - it isn't, and at > best, it is asking for money laundering assistance, which at least in > North America is illegal (however, IANAL.)
Just read a Secret Service guy in Sacramento, CA was just busted for perpetrating this Nigeria scam. I guess he figured he saw enough people get taken by it, he'd try running it himself... http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/4528593p-5548095c.html -- begin 664 .signature M<F5L;&E-("Y'(&-I<D4@/G1E;BYS<&I`,FUG93P)"`@("`@("`@("`@("`@( M"`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`A%<FEC($<N($UI;&QE<B`\96=M,D!J<',N;F5T "/@H` ` end -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
