Subject: Re: Query: On Abacha -- Strange email
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:28:05 GMT


Terry got this kind of letter a while a  go and contacted me about it. My 
advice is to desist from replying to such letters since they are scams. I 
personally believe that the scam is based on the stereotype that people tend 
to hold about developing countries: military juntas plundering the country 
and corrupt bureaucrats cashing in on the disarray. Anyone who desires to 
make millions without working for it will fall for this any time. The moral 
question is why would anyone help crooks defraud a struggling country? 
Obviously, these crooks get cooperation here that is why they send out the 
letters.

There are other issues that may be of poco interest but am not in the mood 
to get into them right now.

A.


>From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: Query: On Abacha -- Strange email
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:02:36 -0700
>
>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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