[meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria

From: Bill Southern <Nugget-Shooter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 20 19:49:23 2005
Message-ID: <003f01c54603$85c60300$0202a8c0_at_yourkgohy9au97>

Hello Michael and list,

Yes I too have received these type emails from Nigeria, but asking to buy 25
to 30 Minelab Metal Detectors at a time...I treat them as you do.

By the way thanks for the beautiful thin sections....

Bill S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "Mike Farmer & Melody" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>; "Meteoriteshow"
<meteoriteshow_at_free.fr>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria


> Hi All,
> Since the last survey of the list resulted in 26% of the members
> responding that they considered themselves meteorite dealers, I post
> this to the entire list:
>
> I have received six or eight inquiries from NIGERIA - all different
> individuals, asking weird questions about buying "my products" - such
> as: Do I ship to Nigeria? Will I take a direct bank wire, etc. The first
> one
> I tried to accommodate, but then received additional inquiries from
> others in Nigeria. After that, I strongly suspected I was receiving
> some sort of spam hustle (like the never ending posts, often in all
> CAPS, about some widow from some obscure country who's dead
> husband left her 26.8 million dollars and if I would just let her wire
> it to my bank account she would happily give me 5% or the like). As
> a result, I am no longer responding to any inquiries "from Nigeria."
> In any event, I wonder if others on this list who have commercial
> web sites have been getting multiple enigmatic posts from Nigeria?
> Best wishes, Michael
>
>
>
> --
> "You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."
> -Herb Cohen
> --
> If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
>
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Received on Wed 20 Apr 2005 07:48:53 PM PDT


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