Re: SB: Re: A scam way way way off topic

["Karlene Bell" <bellstudio@mindspring.com>]

I used to get very "official" looking letters in the US Mail from nigeria
doing the same thing.  I turned them over to the US Post office.  I guess
there isn't anything like the US Post office covering things like this on
the internet......
Karlene
-----Original Message-----
From: Charmaine R Taylor <tms@northcoast.com>
To: Oxford Systems <oxford-systems@mindspring.com>
Cc: Robert Bolman <robtb@efn.org>; strawbale@crest.org <strawbale@crest.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: SB: Re: A scam way way way off topic


>There has been a scam going on with solicitation about money
>specifically from Nigeria for several years now. Many many businesses
>have shipped computers, etc based on fradulent Letters of credit, etc.
>the scam keeps changing, but it is always Nigeria.  Several clinets of
>mine in high tech were always on the alert back in the late 80's early
>90's.
>
>Seems a shame the whole country is getting a bad rep for this, but so it
>is, sort of a foreign ponzi scheme ( ie deposit money to show good
>faith, to get big money, etc)
>
>Charmaine
>
>
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