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From: kenneth at loafman.com (Kenneth Loafman)
Subject: curious email

Hmmm, spammer must be a better lawyer than you thought.  When I go to
the page I get:

     [ this page has been removed ]

and that's it.

...Ken


Anders Bjarby wrote:
  > Very common scam, google for "nigeria letter" and you'll notice that
  > you are not alone. :)
  >
  > /Anders
  >
  > fredagen den 15 augusti 2003 kl 13.11 skrev Tom Koehler:
  >
  >> I see quite a lot of stuff like that coming at
  >> our mail system. I believe its called the nigera
  >> connection. The various storys have gained cult status
  >> in germany (http://www.nigeria-connection.de sorry page in
  >> german). The last one I remember is from last week supposedly
  >> coming from swizterland trying to get at some money sombody
  >> owned how died in the Lockerby crash (quite tastless that).
  >> Those are all schemes to get at your money
  >> hth
  >> tom
  >>
  >>> I received a rather strange email today [08.15.03] at 12:44AM. I'll
  >>> let the email speak for itself:
  >>> http://www.osidan.com/tmp/curiosemail.html
  >>
  >>
  >>> If anyone has any information regarding a scandal revolving around an
  >>> email of this sort, please let me know. I believe I read an article or
  >>> perhaps it was a past FD thread that discussed some sort of scandal
  >>> resembling this scenario. I've not responded to this fellow, nor do I
  >>> intend to, as the email surely seems to be a fake. Firstly, this
  >>> person managed to track my email down but did not address me formally?
  >>> He is a lawyer, so he says, and as such, he certainly should have used
  >>> my name. Also, the email header seems somewhat strange. It's addressed
  >>> to himself from himself. The only place the email address to which he
  >>> was directing the email [my email address] was found was in the
  >>> top-most Received information clause, where I have exchanged that
  >>> particular email address with "my@...il.address". Any information
  >>> would be much appreciated.
  >>
  >>
  >>
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