<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>January 9, 2009</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Ingvild, Sandy, Shane, Bencie and everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for this message, Ingvild. I can really understand your concern.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe that the message you post below is definitely a scam, because I have received that exact same message several times...I have several email addresses, and when I receive the exact same message from a stranger, to all of my email addresses all at once, I become suspicious, and when I receive the same message several times in a week, which I have this one, I don't think there is any doubt that it is a scam.</div><div><br></div><div>These scams are very hard to police, but there are agencies on the web that make it possible to post a complaint...I am not sure which one is best or if it can even be fruitful...does anyone know of the place to post a complaint?</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Ingvild Roald wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Dear friends,<br><br>this is not about Sign Writing at all - but as I got this message into my e-mail box at work, I became concerned. It seems to me to be one of the infamous 'Nigera-letters' that try to con people out of money - and this time the Deaf are under attack. As we know, many Deaf people do not get as much general information as hearing people, and thus can more easily fall pry to such a scam. Therefore, I ask you to help warn your Deaf Friends that such letters do siculate, and are not to be acted upon.<br><br>In addition, I would ask someone in UK (Sandy? Shane? Bencie?) to check that this really is a scam (I would be much surpised if it is not, but if it should turn out to be true, then it would be hoped that these two children could be helped)<br><br>Ingvild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">This is the original message:<br><br><br><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Hello honest people</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">My name is james martins and i work for the uk deaf government..in</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">manchester .i will really love to pass this information to all good and</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">the honest one that is really willing to take good care of 7 years old</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">girl and 7 years old boy that .Their mother and father came from unknown</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">area and they live in uk..in 3 months ago their parents died and they left</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">the some of 3million pounds in their account.and when u convert into u s</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">dollars its about 6.5million dollars.the 2 deaf kids are in the uk</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">hospital were doctor benedict is taking good care of them cus they were</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">involved in the accident that happen, to God be the glory that they were</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">not dead like their parents.we shall love a good honest deaf or woman who</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">can accept the 2 kids and take good care of them and after 2 months the uk</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">government will always come to check after them..and such that person will</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">be given the 3million pounds to take good care of the kids.Please write me</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">back if u are intrested so that we can contact the bank that whole the</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">money as soon as possible and also contact the uk government so that they</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">can sign and agreed the kids to go with u and the money..pls contact me as</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">possible in this email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:adoptionjames@gmail.com">adoptionjames@gmail.com</a> phone +447031898736</font></div><br><br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>