Re: A scam way way way off topic

["Oxford Systems" <oxford-systems@mindspring.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Bolman" <robtb@efn.org>
To: <strawbale@crest.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: SB: A scam way way way off topic


> Well, Hello There Everybody,
>
> I'm posting this to the strawbale list because it's where I most expect to
> find friendly, intelligent, interested people.
>
> I've recieved several things like the following.  What's the scam here?
Can
> someone please explain this to me?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob


Yes. The Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com can
enlighten you about this scam and many others.

http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm is the direct link to this
one but you'll want to spend some more time poking around Snopes. Very
interesting web site. ;-)


Alan