From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81a4a45d61d63aa1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-26 18:16:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!freenix!deine.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp74259.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Confidential Date: 27 Oct 2002 01:16:32 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp74259.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.208.36) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1035681392 1178722 64.229.208.36 (16 [125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nntp+chvatal:comp.lang.ada" 3751) X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Emacs-Acronym: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Microsoft: Where even the version numbers aren't Y2K-compliant X-Uboat-Death-Message: BOMBED BY DESTROYER. TORPEDOS. SINKING. U-896. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30167 Date: 2002-10-27T01:16:32+00:00 List-Id: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, tmoran@acm.org wrote: >> Telex or TWX. Nigeria is (in)famous for this type of scam. > I heard a segment on the radio about it. It's called the 490 scam (or > some such number) after the section of the Nigerian legal code that > outlaws it. It's "409", not "490." And it appears that a substantial portion of Nigerian government officials are actively involved in the scam. > There are versions where it's an American soldier in Afghanistan who > stumbled on some booty, instead of a Nigerian official. It got > started in the Midwest a hundred years ago as the "Sir Francis > Drake" scam - somebody in England was going to get you a share in > the treasure Queen Elizabeth took from him. So far as I know, > there's not yet a version that has anything to do with Ada.... I've seen versions involving Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kenya, and the Congo. Apparently they have flown people to Nigeria to show them vaults full of gold to suck them into bigger participation. (That's only worthwhile when the "suckee" has Great Gobs of Money available to be scammed, of course.) It seems hard to believe that there would be anyone left that /hasn't/ heard that it's a scam. -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/nonrdbms.html All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.