LL-L "Word play" 2004.05.27 (04) [E]

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From: Ed Alexander <edsells at cogeco.ca>
Subject: LL-L "Word play" 2004.05.27 (01) [E]

At 07:52 AM 05/27/04 -0700, Gabriele Kahn wrote:

While we're being semi-frivolous... you have probably all received several
of those spam mails by now where somebody from Africa, usually Nigeria,
promises you millions of dollars if you give him access to your bank
account? Well, I got one yesterday that really made me laugh out loud. Check
the following paragraph:

"I am moved to write you this letter considering my present circumstance,
as I managed to escape to the Netherlands, in Europe for safety, while my
mother and two sisters escaped to Abidjan, Cote Divorce to settle."

My favourite that I received was (humorous part in bold) :

"Well, my fathers died some few months ago and left my mother I and my
junior brother behind. He was a king, which our town citizens titled him
before his death. I was a Princess to him and I and my brother are the only
people who can take Care of his wealth now because my mother is not literate
enough to know all my father's wealth behind. He left up to USD 27, 350,
000.00 dollars (TWENTY SEVEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US
DOLLARS) with a security company, and I don't know how and what I will do to
invest this money somewhere in abroad, so that my father's kindred will not
take over what belongs to my father and our family, which they were planning
to do without my present because I am a female as stated by our culture in
the town."

Frankly, that's a lot more money than I would ever invest in a broad.

Ed Alexander

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