Apologies for cross-posting

Maybe it is my inner-city, suspicious outlook, but has anyone else on the list receives what looks like a specialised mutation of the "Nigerian" confidence trick?

I've received, apparently from Russia, an offer to donate a handful of old and rare books to my library, because the sender does not trust Russian libraries.  This was followed up a few days later by a second message seeming to come from a Russian lawyer chasing up a reply to the offer.  Since my "library" at Elsevier consists of a French dictionary, the Cilip yearbook and some presentation picture books - it's maybe reasonable for me to think that all is not as it seems.

Still, it's nice to see that the concept of niche markets has now expanded into the more informal areas of email enterprise.

Tony

Tony McSean
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