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   Thomas Prufer to All   
   Nigerian spam -- on paper, by snail mail   
   27 Jul 16 20:10:12   
   
   From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
      
   Thomas Prufer   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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