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From: anders at infomaker.se (Anders Bjarby)
Subject: curious email

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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