Phil, I used to get them from ministries in Africa, like Nigeria.  I 
think there is a way to have them stopped, but not sure how that is 
accomplished.  Perhaps I'll check it out.  Smile

Y S I C
Helen

Earlier you wrote:
>Yes, Helen,
>
>I have gotten them for years but this is the first one I have gotten with
>the guy saying he is one of the American forces over in Eraq.  They get you
>to email them, then the develop a telephone relationship with you and
>eventually talk people into giving them their  bank account number to
>transfer the funds.  If they can't get you to do that, they tell you they
>need 2500 dollars, or just about any dollar amount, to get the money
>released into your name.  An elderly man in Nebraska fell for one of these
>and lost 80,000 dollars before somebody helped him put a stop to it.  All
>the time he thought he was going to become a millionaire.
>
>Phil.

"Freedom in Christ is not just absence of bondage, but the presence of
Life."