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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Clark Stephens wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
>
> > > What are 419s?
> >
> > 419 refers to the Nigerian Penal Code section for this kind of crime.
> >
> > The letters/emails are still getting responses decades after the scam was
> > created. The U.S. Secret Service has a special webpage for information:
> > http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
> > and there is a wider private-sector site, The 419 Coalition, dedicated to
> > stopping the scam:
> > http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
> >
> > Hope that helps,
>
> It does.. Thanks Clark! (your fount of amazingly obscure facts never ceases to
> amaze...)
OK once I get hold of something, sometimes I worry it to pieces.
While reading about a Mecha based combat game (1) (a link found from an orkut
profile) I ran across another entry in this fellows blog pointing to a 419 story
that's "out of this world"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/cosmic_419er/
++Lar
1 - http://joshua.swingpad.com/ROROGA/ROROGA.html
Xpost build.mecha
XFUT off-topic.fun
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