From: "George Simmers" <[log in to unmask]>
[Douglas quoth:]
> > I get these Nigerian things all the time.
But this one is a new version (which is why I passed it on).
> I've been mildly interested recently to get some with a topical twist -
from
> Zimbabwe.
Hey -- someone selling a disenfranchised hog's land?
> Do you think anyone is ever daft enough to believe the things?
Actually, there are people ... I was not that long ago backchanneled to the
effect of, "Should I take this up, Robin?"
No (obviously) no, no, I screamed.
So it just goes to show ...
Robin
But the (to me) interesting bit about it is the subtext -- in all versions,
the obvious tickler is easy money. [Well, who'd turn down free loot?]
Then there's the African Meltdown connection. [A bit of stereotyping
there.] And the money is tainted ...
By the time you run it the whole way through, the only sensible answer is to
pick up an AK47 and join the Animal Liberation Front.
<sigh>
Bins.
Leave ASIDE the Deliberate Spelling Mistakes. How many years ago was it
that Paul Robeson starred as Bosambo in +Sanders of the River+? Whoever's
running the Nigerian Scam is seriously time-warped.
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