read this

[Russ Dill]

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 12:47, Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists) wrote:
> Being an ex-African, and one having had financial dealings with people in
> compromising circumstances (as this), and also referring to a number of
> warnings in publications like TIME and NEWSWEEK, I would highly recommend
> all members of this newsgroup to treat this mail with suspicion and
> immediately refer it to /dev/null, in the hope that /dev/null will be of
> assistance!

actually, this scam is 20+ years old and there is a special office setup
in washington to help people who have lost money this way. (Its also
referered to as a 419 scam). Kindof funny that his email keeps getting
cc'd.

419.fcd at usss.treas.gov