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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I do know that Scotland Yard in London has a special team working on these frauds. I'm getting loads of them too; does anyone know how we can forward them to the police? Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [M-R] TAN Nigeria scam (was "never mind") medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I've collected these "Nigeria Scam" messages for the past several years, and have a huge file. Don't ask; I'm a collector; it's in the blood. Recently some of them have been explicitly Islamic rather than Christian. I've even used them pedagogically -- I gave three similar ones to my classes and asked them to look for clues as to which may have adapted which, which is most recent, etc. It was a good exercise, not quite as intense as William James examining the fish for his mentor Aggasiz (do I have that right?). One "give away" was the letter that began Islamicly, progressed to a Jewish bible reference attributed to "the Allah," and ended with the "Yours in Christ" salutation. The students were able to see those footprints, especially when compared with basically the same letter in fully Christianized, more "original" form. Anyhow, if anyone wants the mega-file of these materials, for similar assignments or whatever, I'll be happy to supply it. Don't you love the name on the one below, Grimhelm Wormtongue? Oi! And they're all so personal! Bob > > From: jeffery <[log in to unmask]> > > Never mind, I found it. I'm getting so many messages these days from good > Christians > > in Africa who've stolen millions from their countries and want to split it > with me > > that I sometimes miss the messages I'm actually interested in. > > You may have seen this... > > From: Grimhelm Wormtongue > Date: Heven 25 Afteryule 1592 10:55:51 > > DUNLAND > > Dear sir and/or madame, > > Salutations, I am GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE, The son of late Counsellor Gríma > Wormtongue of the Kingdom of Rohan. [body deleted] > MR, GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE. -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 [log in to unmask] http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html