These are a known hoax, and these dastardly people are
working their way around the web.  Seems to me I got
something comparable about a month ago.


--- Candace Perry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Also, regarding these emails -- a colleague here
> (not on this list) received
> two weird emails supposedly from a Nigerian trying
> to get her bank account
> numbers -- the emails referred to a deposed ruling
> family and many billions
> of dollars that could be hers if she gave out
> personal info. The Secret
> Service is tracking these, and wants copies of them
> faxed to their offices
> (my cowroker has done this).  I think you can find
> out more if you put
> "Nigeria spam" into a search engine.
>
> Candace Perry
> Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
> Ekwonwa, offering me a
> large sum of money from a South African diamond mine
> in exchange for my US
> passport and other consideration.  This is obviously
> a very clumsy attempt
> at a con game, and I will be forwarding the message
> to our Security Dept.
> so they may take the appropriate measures.
>
> I don't know how they got my work e-mail, but
> Museum-L is one of the few
> places it gets seen by a wide audience.  Forwarned
> is forearmed.
>
> -- Eugene Dillenburg
> Exhibit Developer and Not as Dumb as He Looks
> Science Museum of Minnesota
>
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