From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Confidential
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:46:19 GMT
Date: 2002-10-27T00:46:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vHGu9.125081$La5.402020@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> (raw)
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> 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. 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....
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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 ` tmoran [this message]
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 ` Confidential Christopher Browne
2002-10-27 15:52 ` Confidential Larry Kilgallen
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