> Received this today. At the risk of starting a waaaaay off topic
> thread, I thought this was amusing enough to pass on for general
> enjoyment. I see the scam has (apparently) moved from Nigeria to South
> Africa, although where this person is actually based is of course
> uncertain.

I've had quite a few of these by letter, email and fax. They obviously
find fax machines quite complicated as it it took them several goes
to get the bit of paper to go through. (Probably worn out). What
suprised me was that he phoned to make sure the fax came
through OK.

They do have a use though. Another con that was doing the rounds
(until they recently got busted) was some supposed Investment
brokers that were operating out of a basement in the Phillipines (I
think). They put on a really hard sell and are impossible to get rid
of, but if you tell them that you would be interested in their scheme
and that you are expecting a large sum of money from Nigeria,
they get all confused and hang up.
:-)

Steve.

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TLA Microsystems Ltd         Microcontroller Specialists
PO Box 15-680, New Lynn      http://www.tla.co.nz
Auckland, New Zealand        ph  +64 9 820-2221
email: steveb@tla.co.nz      fax +64 9 820-1929
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