From: ctbishop@earthlink.net   
      
   In article <51thpbpta8h8s6kgbq8tjbl0oingmk7rcs@4ax.com>,   
    Thomas Prufer wrote:   
      
   > Ooooo, I just got a Nigerian, but from Spain, offering "US$8,800,00.00 Mio"   
   > (million), complete with minor wording errors in German. Some guy died, and   
   > I'm   
   > to help get the money out of the country, because otherwise corrupt officials   
   > will keep the money for themselves. 20% is to go to charitable causes, and   
   > 40%   
   > each to me and the attorney.   
   >   
   > So, what's new, you say, millions of the things get tossed in bitbuckets   
   > every   
   > day!   
   >   
   > This is a Real Letter, with a Real Stamp, and cost 0.76 Euro-Cents in   
   > postage,   
   > say 85 US Cents. Wow.   
   >   
   > Yeah, I know fax-lore and xerox-lore, and the smell of mimographed warnings,   
   > (and I have a bunch of hectograph pencils somewhere, toxic they are), and the   
   > sound of the water cooler, er, cooling...   
   >   
   > But an actual paper 419 letter, in 2016 -- wow.   
      
   Did you look at the postmark? What was the date on the letter?   
      
   Do you have access to an address that can't be traced to you?   
      
      
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   charles, internym   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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