Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

2008-07-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Arrived in my inbox this morning: Hello, I hope my email meets you well. I am in need of your assistance. My name is SGT JOEY JONES.I am a military attache with the Engineering unit here in Ba'qubah Iraq for the united states, we have about $20 Million American dollars here which is

Re: Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

2008-07-07 Thread John Garcia
Couldn't they come up with a better name than Joey Jones!? john On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arrived in my inbox this morning: Hello, I hope my email meets you well. I am in need of your assistance. My name is SGT JOEY JONES.I am a

Re: Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

2008-07-07 Thread Julia Thompson
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, John Garcia wrote: Couldn't they come up with a better name than Joey Jones!? Could be worse, could be Davey Jones. :) (My uncle (mother's brother) was in medical school with a Davey Jones who turned out to be something like a 3rd cousin of my father.) Julia

Re: Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

2008-07-07 Thread Bruce Bostwick
I've seen these myself, but I'm not sure if they came from Iraq. Most of these still come from Nigeria, and the basic concept is identical in all of them (modern equivalents of the Spanish Prisoner scam, basically), the only difference being some superficial parameters. I think some of

Re: Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

2008-07-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:54 AM Monday 7/7/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: I've seen these myself, but I'm not sure if they came from Iraq. Most of these still come from Nigeria, and the basic concept is identical in all of them (modern equivalents of the Spanish Prisoner scam, basically), the only difference being some