Re: ASSISTANCE/ You are free to investigate about my family background, especially my father wealth, but Treat this matter with utmost confidentiality and if for personal reasons this proposal does not meet your approval, please keep my confident and disregard this mail. I look forward to your quick response.

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:25:37AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:01, MR REUBEN SAVIMBI wrote:
> > My Dear 
> > 
> > I am MR REUBEN SAVIMBI one of the favorite sons of Mr. JONAS SAVIMBI (The
> > Rebel leader) ...
> 
> [***SNIPPAGE OF SCAMAGE***]
> 
> Treat this with the utmost confidentiality? and yet it is being sent to
> whole mailing lists, as well as any other harvested email addresses that
> can be found? These scams were old when I first got one from Nigeria in
> 1997 - now that it is in email, it should be obvious by the third one
> received that this is just some template to encourage the collection of
> money for "service and legal fees, and outright bribes".
> 
> To anyone on this list - if you wondered for a moment about the
> legitimacy of any of these, put it out of your mind - it isn't, and at
> best, it is asking for money laundering assistance, which at least in
> North America is illegal (however, IANAL.)

Just read a Secret Service guy in Sacramento, CA was just busted for
perpetrating this Nigeria scam.  I guess he figured he saw enough people
get taken by it, he'd try running it himself...

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/4528593p-5548095c.html

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