SPUG: Re: VENTURE CAPITAL

[Marvin Crippen]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Gardner Cohen wrote:
> > URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~virus-busters/hoaxes/nigeria_urgentbiz.html
>
> a variant of
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~virus-busters/hoaxes/nigeria_scam.html
>
> I think some bonus versions of this include amazing long distance charges
> (tens or hundreds of dollars per minute) for calling the number.

A friend of mine recently recently recieved a similar bit of spam and
after a bit of investigation ended up sending a copy of it to the
Secret Service.  More details at
http://www.treas.gov/usss/index.htm?alert419.htm&1

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