Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXXXXXX > > > XXXXXX COTE D' IVOIRE > > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > > > [snip for confidentiality] > > > > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil > > unrest in Nigeria and the plot of smuggling funds into the United > > States, but the recipient failed to respond. > > I hope you're not serious. :) It's a well-known scam, sometimes known as > the "419 Fraud" - type 'Nigeria scam' into Google and you get quite a > number of relevant hits.
>From what I've heard years ago, some of these scammers get people to travel there where they are either kidnapped or threatened. I wouldn't even play along with these people. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
