Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:02:36 -0700
Subject: Re: Query: On Abacha -- Strange email


Anyone can put the names of list members in their address books and make 
solicitations....sort of list-pan handling....this is after all a public, 
if virtual space...like a mall perhaps...with r as the only "security 
guard" ;-))

recall that we get material from:
"AFRICAHOME.COM" <africah-AT-africahome.com>
which has kept us abreast of some of the events to which the post alludes...

but I have to agree with Randy...what is so terrible and strange about this 
appeal....except maybe that it is very personal rather than 
institutional....like some of the other appeals are....

ON THE OTHER HAND there are also scams being run wherein help is sought for 
money transfers up front with promises of a percentage upon completion of 
the transfer...usually there is a political dimension with international 
intrigue etc...if anything it may be a scam but probably not a joke....



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