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   Steve Hayes to solstice688@TAKEYOURSPAMANDhotmail.   
   Re: high quality computer parts   
   12 Oct 03 17:15:29   
   
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   From: hayesstw.spamless@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:22:54 +0000 (UTC), Midwinter   
    wrote:   
      
   >hayesstw.spamless@yahoo.com (Steve Hayes) wrote in   
   >news:3f884bcf.52560521@news.saix.net:   
   >> 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.   
      
   By all means. Feel free to adapt, pass on to others, etc. The more people who   
   send such replies, thye quicker their mailboxes fill up.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   E-mail: hayesstw@yahoo.com   
   Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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