attached hoax

[Potter at Island Resources]

That's funny, I get about four or five of these letters in hard copy 
(often written in pencil) and mailed from Nigeria---it never occurred 
to me to report them to the FBI division of snail mail scams....

bp

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At 5:55 PM -0500 11/28/00, ABANCA at aol.com wrote:
>Good evening all,
>I got about 10 different letters of the same kind. I did report them to the
>FBI division of Internet scams and they responded that they were aware of it.
>i forwarded every email address I got them from, and... it will be up to them
>to find these people.
>
>It never, never fails: if it's too good to be true... well, you know...
>Angela B. Schmidlapp


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