[meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria

[Meteoriteshow]

Hi all,

I got this one today as well.
Simply delete if you can't avoid receiving it...
Cheers,

Frederic
meteoriteshow
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Branch" <branchw at bellsouth.net>
To: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria


> Michael-
>
> Of course they are scams!  I have been geting those literally every day
for
> YEARS.
>
> Literally everyday I get spam email from these guys about "buying your
> products" and "do you ship to ..." in addtion to the ones that begin "I am
> the mighty potentate, the son of ....."
>
> Also, scams to buy medicines.
>
> Literally every day, several times a day.  Two already this morning.
>
> There is nothing enigmatic about them.  They want your money.
>
> It is hard to block them because they use stolen email  addresses and they
> send sometimes with slightly different subject lines.
>
> Below is one I got a few minutes ago.  Look familiar?
>
> -Walter
>
> hello,
>   i will like to place an order to be shipped to my client in lagos
> nigeria via ups express.
>              you will be authorised to bill my credit card for the cost
> including the cost of shipping.
>       please get back to me with your website so that i can give you the
> items needed.
> regards,
> james.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> To: "Mike Farmer & Melody" <meteoritehunter at comcast.net>; "Meteoriteshow"
> <meteoriteshow at free.fr>; "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >         Since the last survey of the list resulted in 26% of the members
> > responding that they considered themselves meteorite dealers, I post
> > this to the entire list:
> >
> >         I have received six or eight inquiries from NIGERIA - all
> different
> > individuals, asking weird questions about buying "my products" - such
> > as: Do I ship to Nigeria? Will I take a direct bank wire, etc. The first
> one
> > I tried to accommodate, but then received additional inquiries from
> > others in Nigeria. After that, I strongly suspected I was receiving
> > some sort of spam hustle (like the never ending posts, often in all
> > CAPS, about some widow from some obscure country who's dead
> > husband left her 26.8 million dollars and if I would just let her wire
> > it to my bank account she would happily give me 5% or the like). As
> > a result, I am no longer responding to any inquiries "from Nigeria."
> >         In any event, I wonder if others on this list who have
commercial
> > web sites have been getting multiple enigmatic posts from Nigeria?
> >         Best wishes, Michael
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."
> >      -Herb Cohen
> > --
> > If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
> >
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