Interesting option! I have been tempted to reply myself just to see how
far the scam would go. They are getting more elaborate - I got one this
morning in which it was claimed that a Nigerian reverend had left me 1.8
million dollars, having apparently heard about my good deeds within the
church and having been compelled by the Lord Almighty himself to send
some money my way. The fact that I am a convinced atheist and have
nothing to do with any church at all was not the only thing that led me
to disregard it!
Roger
Benson Honig wrote:
>
> I get these every couple of weeks. Last week I enthusiastically
> replied, giving them my fax and phone number. I figured, maybe it's
> worth draining their resources. I actually got a call from South Africa
> today - 3 in fact - from Dr. Mundaba or something! I kept just
> repeating to him "any way I can help, any way I can help"...the rest
> of the sentence would be more like " to get you people into jail
> somewhere", but I just left that part off. I think if they get inundated
> with people pretending to be stupid, like me, they might actually
> eventually shut down.
> Benson
>
> > >This is a 100cam, PLEASE, do not allow yourself to get
> > >sucked in by this, the SPAM/Scam is in relation to :-
> > >
> > >THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
> > >WERKEN BIJ DE LOTTO.
> > Yeah, already got it. Amazingly, it's simply a variation on the African
> > overbilling scam, but I guess the other one's just not working well enough
> > anymore, and the perps have decided to move the "location" to something
> > more European (and therefore, supposedly, "safer."). Amusingly, they're
> > using the "$22,500,000.00 U.S." sum elsewhere in this e-mail, which is the
> > same amount that keeps cropping up in the African scams.
> >
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