Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <maryamintouch@yahoo.com> 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.
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