Friday, August 3, 2001

Fwd: Business Proposal

Re: [spiers] Fwd: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

A chuckle,

For those poor souls who don't care to read much less
research anything about World affairs, Nigeria is one
of the most corrupt countries on earth. This would be
reason enough, at least for me, to have a weary eye on
such requests.
Alex

--- wileyccc@aol.com wrote:
> Folks,
>
> On the last page of the class materials there is a
> letter from Nigeria
> enticing me to engage in the smuggling of funds out
> of Nigeria. Attached is
> another, now coming by email.
>
> This scam has been around for years, and essentially
> what happens is US
> business people replay, give up their bank account
> number, and get cleaned
> out for whatever it is worth.
>
> This scam has been going on for at least 25 years,
> and there is a department
> of the US Secret Service devoted to combatting it.
>
> I would hope that anyone who took my class was
> beyond falling for such a
> scam, but just to be really, really sure... please
> know such deals are, as
> they say, too good to be true.
>
> John Spiers


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