[Wolves] FW: Personal Contact........<--- this is still going on???

[Peter Cannon]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:40, Simon Burke wrote:
> On 22/3/04 10:34 am, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 10:18, Re-LoaD's LUG Mail wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> >> To: "Wolverhampton Linux User Group" <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> >> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:56 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Wolves] FW: Personal Contact........<--- this is still
> >> goingon???
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hi Simon
> >> 
> >> These are great I've had that one at work a couple of times my favourite
> >> is the African general who is in exile but can lay his hands on
> >> squilliens of pounds if you let him use your bank account for transfer
> >> purposes.
> >> 
> >> It never ceases to amaze me at the muppets that fall for the scam. Greed
> >> is a powerful incentive.
> >> 
> >> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:08, Simon Burke wrote:
> >>> Hiya, below is some spam I got in my inbox, which is strange as spam
> >>> assassin usually picks it up. Anyway I thought this scam had died off oh
> >>> well.. , I think I might print it off and frame it a a monument to how low
> >>> people can go to try and get money off you...
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> ------ Forwarded Message
> >>> 
> >>>> From Desk of Mr Gunik Akiga.
> >> <snip>
> >> 
> >> What it's a Scam ........SH!T do you think i'll get my money back ?
> > Er, If you give me your credit card details and pin number along with
> > any bank/building societies accounts you may have General Undubanigi
> > Mawzignagu will use his UN contact to recover your money, use your money
> > to fund a Safari to Swaziland were the lost mine of honga wonga will
> > multiply your initial investment a billion, trillion times.
> > 
> This is the first spam e-mail I've ever had from my geek-web e-mail account
> so its quite strange, unless they decided to switch off spam assassin. Also
> wasn¹t there a TV documentary about it a couple of years ago on the good ole
> BBC lol. 
> Besides I'm not that dumb and I've just got a 10% raise with my new
> contract. With the added role of supporting some V nice A/V equipment.

10% Raise?!!

Uhm As you know the Berlin wall came down a few years back, in the
middle of no-mans land a secret stash of Nazi gold has been located. If
you would give us your bank details we..................................


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Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk