From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Confidential
Date: 27 Oct 2002 01:07:32 GMT
Date: 2002-10-27T01:07:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apfe8k$1371l$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DBB01F3.60304@worldnet.att.net
Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> This is a well documented scam.
>
> In the last month I have received many similar mailings claiming to
> be from a Nigerian official. Save your money. Do not participate in this
> rip off.
I get several every /day/.
The US Secret Service apparently has a group specializing in the
Nigerian scams; there are apparently enough gullible people to make it
a problem...
Just tell them that if they wrote their banking software in Ada, the
transfer wouldn't have been a problem :-).
--
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 20:38 Confidential adaobim
2002-10-26 20:59 ` Confidential Jim Rogers
2002-10-26 22:31 ` Confidential David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-10-27 0:46 ` Confidential tmoran
2002-10-27 1:16 ` Confidential Christopher Browne
2002-10-28 12:30 ` Confidential Marin David Condic
2002-10-27 6:02 ` Confidential Advance Australia Dear
2002-10-30 5:00 ` Confidential Richard Riehle
2002-10-27 1:07 ` Christopher Browne [this message]
2002-10-27 15:52 ` Confidential Larry Kilgallen
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