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3rd annual nigerian e-mail conference

I am Mr. Laurent Mpeti Kabila, a senior assistant leader of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone. I present to you an urgent and confidential request: I request your attendance at The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned money. Attending this conference demands the highest trust, security and confidentiality between us.

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Fantastic! Wish I'd saved all the Nigerian (and other) fraudulent 419 scam e-mails I've received instead of instantly deleting ,as if they could somehow contaminate me.

It's a great image, all these 'sons and daughters and spouses of prominent officials' their multi-multi-billions of dollars sitting in Swiss banks, waiting for all of us poor, naive saps to release the loot into our own puny little accounts......Isn't there a blockbuster film script in this?

i got a variant of this as well, it

never fails... people never have anything better to do with their time than to send this garbage through cyberspace

i got a variant of this as well, it

never fails... people never have anything better to do with their time than to send this garbage through cyberspace

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