That's the Nigerian money scam. It's an electronic, 
updated version of an old scam, the wire-transfer scam, 
that dates back to the use of the telegraph. IIRC.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 10 Jan 2003, at 18:34, Dusty wrote:

> What cracks me up is when I get spam trying to sell
> spamming services, or sell me mailing lists so I can spam.
> 
> Oh, has anyone noticed the racket where they try to get
> you to send money to help some deposed ruler in Africa get
> his money out of the country? I get at least two versions
> of this one a week.
> 
> Dusty
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Spammers/Scammers and formats used
> 
> 
> > SPAM = Stupid Person's Advertising Method. The only
> > people making money off of spam are the services that
> > send it out for stupid people.
> >
> > David
> > dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
> >
> > On 10 Jan 2003, at 10:33, cbirds wrote:
> >
> > > I know there are spammers on this list so I just want
> > > to say that lately, they have been sending all their
> > > junkmail in formats no one can read.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


 

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