On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 13:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 9/28/2002 7:12:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << "You'll know you are living in 2002 when you find "confidential" messages > posted to email lists and newsgroups." >> > > Not only that, this is a classic--indeed textbook--example of a scam that's > been around for at least 50 years. Any list of common mail fraud schemes will > include it amongst the most prominent and best-known. What makes this > particular example humorous (in addition to annoying) is the illiteracy > quotient, which is unusually high for someone who fancies themselves a con > artist. --D.A. Lawrence >
And yet, you keep hearing about people who fall for them. I think I was reading a few weeks ago where this businessman up in Canada was bilked out of about $40,000. --Bill _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
