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Re: re spam: Assistance



I think everyone in the world has been getting letters like this every day
for the past year. It's known as the "Nigerian Scam" or the "419 Fraud" and
it goes back 20 years -- even back to the 1920s in other forms. E-mail has
given it a new life. In short: someone wants to plunder your bank account
with a sob story.

See http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

and http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm



Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch


-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley W. Brunet [mailto:lwbrunet@MAIL.MDANDERSON.ORG]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:05 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: re spam: Assistance


Did anyone else get this strange letter?

---------------------- Forwarded by Lesley W. Brunet/MDACC on 08/26/2002
10:04
AM ---------------------------

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