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   From: solstice688@TAKEYOURSPAMANDhotmail.com   
      
   hayesstw.spamless@yahoo.com (Steve Hayes) wrote in   
   news:3f884bcf.52560521@news.saix.net:   
      
   > No, your letter did not come to me as a surprise.   
   >   
   > I have more than 1000 requests similar to yours awaiting my attention,   
   > so it will take me a year or two to get around to dealing with yours.   
   >   
   > In the mean time, however, I would like to:   
   >   
   > a) send my condolences on the death of your rich relative who was   
   > deposed as the head of state of:   
   >      1) Nigeria   
   >      2) Congo   
   >      3) Ivory Coast   
   >      4) Burundi   
   >      5) Uganda   
   >      7) Togo   
   >      8) Any country not named above   
   >   
   > b) send my condolences on the death of your rich relative with Aids   
   >   
   > c) tell you how touched I am by your sincere testimony of your   
   > conversion from Islam   
   >   
   > d) tell you how touched I was by any other sob story not included   
   > above   
   >   
   > e) Tell you how impressed I am with the remarkable number of Nigerian   
   > banks that have dormant accounts in the name of rich dictators.   
   > crooks, embezzlers and the like.   
   >   
   > f) Tell you how impressed I am with the remarkable number of venal and   
   > corrupt banking officials in Nigeria, or Nigerians pretending to be   
   > venal and corrupt bank or government officials in other countries.   
   >   
   > g) Let you know that I wonder if there are any Nigerians who are not   
   > crooks. Judging from the number of letters like yours that I receive,   
   > it is hard to imagine that there is a single honest person in Nigeria,   
   > because Nigerians who write such letters seem to expect people in   
   > other countries to be just as venal and corrupt as they are.   
      
      
   Very good.  I like it.  Do you mind if I borrow it?   
      
   Incidentally, a friend of mine has taken to answering these letters   
   absolutely seriously, but giving as the contact phone number the number   
   for the NCIS department that deals with advance fee frauds.   
      
   I would not think for one moment that any of them actually carry on once   
   NCIS answer the phone, but hey - if it annoys the scammer...!  :o)   
      
   --   
   Midwinter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)