Fwd: failure notice

Miriam Hardin miriam.hardin at lycos.com
Thu Feb 8 14:31:28 CST 2001


And here's another message my account spat back at me today.  Erg.

"Bruce Appelbaum" <brucea at bestweb.net> wrote:
><For those of you of a naive bent, this is a common internet scam, with
>messages originating in Nigeria.  I thought the approach was rather
>innovative and worth sharing.  Especially the part about moaning for the
>next two months.  My ex-wife did that for 8 years, and I was still alive.>
>

>>                       STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
>>
>> Mrs Marie Laurent Desire Kablila
>> Kinshasa, Dem Rep of Congo
>> C/o Mr Joseph Zanuma
>> Johannesburg South Africa
>> Tel: 27-82-9718133
>> Fax: 27-83-4707752
>> Email: jzanuma at hotvoice.com
>>
>> Dear Appel,
>>
>>               REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
>>

In case anyone's interested, there's more information about this particular strain of internet scam at:

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

Miriam


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