Re: curious email

[Anders Bjarby <anders () infomaker se>]

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@email.address". Any information
> > would be much appreciated.
>
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