Re[2]: purported email from "David Martins"

["B. Gillessen" b.gillessen@xxxxxxxx]

Robert,

in case you want to complete your private collection you (and others
as well) might be interested in foraging at

  http://www.nigeria-connection.de/inhalt_a_z.html

Currently, it contains 309 different versions of the Niegerian scam in
alphabetical order.

Or maybe you are in the possession of a rare one which these guys have
not yet in their collection?



At 13:46 04.03.2003 holmgren@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> ** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox"  on Wed, 19 Feb 2003
> 10:46:36 -0800


>> a variant of the infamous "Nigerian Scam"

> They're always fun to read. I must have gotten 40 of these in the last year.
> The first time I ever got one, I "bit" to the extent that I phoned the South
> African Embassy to report an attempted absconding of state funds. Which report
> met with some hilarity on their part. I think one guy writes them all; they
> always have the same concoction of sincerity, imperfect English, and an
> innovative story line; the writer is always a relation of some real-life
> bigwig. I read somewhere that people who get ensnared in these things often
> end up flying to African country X, where they are installed by their minders
> in a hotel and start shelling out "bribes" to the tune of several hundred
> thousand dollars, to "secure the release of the funds", which meets "just one
> more" impediment after another. They are kept busy, meeting "department
> heads", "ministers", etc., and gradually engrossed in the apparent "wrongdoing"
> such that they too become "criminal conspirators". They also discover that
> they need exit visas to leave the country. Quite a brilliant concept.

> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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