This is the Nigerian scam or one of it's off shoots.  At best it's a form
of spam, and at worst, it's a means to get your account information.  I
don't know if forwarding it will do any good, but I just delete them.  The
one thing you don't want to do is respond to them or any other form of
spam.  There are a lot of spam related resources on the web.

Christopher

Christopher J Chaltain
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Jacob Joehl <[log in to unmask]>
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05/24/2003 05:20 PM
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        Subject:        [VICUG-L] Spam Question

Hi everyone.
I have been getting two or three messages a day from someone in a far-off
country, usually Nigeria or Angola, asking me for some type of
transaction.
I am just wondering if any one knows how the heck these things reach only
designated people on the web.  I had a friend's father tell me to forward
all spam I receive to the following email: [log in to unmask]  Having known this
friend and his family for quite a while and really liking them, I trusted
him and sent some junk mail I received to the address he gave me but
nothing
has happened.  Should I take this to mean that the messages have been or
are
being processed and therefore it was the right thing to do, or what?  In
the
one I just received, something I found rather interesting is that this
person mentioned the war in Iraq.  Thanks for any possible explanation
into
this matter.
Jacob


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