I recently received a couple variations of the years-old Nigerian e-mail hoax, As a public service I'm posting them here. A word of advice: when the letter says, The following information are required from you urgently: Your personal telephone and fax numbers, your banking details where the money will be transferred, your full names and contact address and your date of birth (indicate sex and marital status) --WALK AWAY! Unbelievably, the Washington Post says over 300 people, who bled $20 million, didn't.
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links:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64335-2002Apr28
http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2609884,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53115,00.html
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/scam_page.html
http://www.quatloos.com/cm-niger/nigerian_scam_letter_museum.htm
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/naffpub.pdf