From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-04T23:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: I NEED YOUR HELP

On 2002.07.04, Francis Hwang <sera@fhwang.net> wrote:
> 
> Uh, Dossy, do you have any specific reason to speculate this way, or 
> are you just in the mood to make unsubstantiated conjecture?

I'm just handwaving.  If that bothers you, killfile my email address.
Neither of us will be missing much.

> I've never heard anything about government complicity in anything I've
> read on the subject, including the brief by the Internet Fraud
> Complaint Center. (http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/strategy/nls.asp)

Oh yes, if there was government complicity in this, of _course_ it'd
be published far and wide and not *squashed* immediately.  Our
government never silences things or covers things up on behalf of other
governments.

Boy, I'm sure glad I live in the USA where we're allowed to expose the
government's complicity in scandals and not get silenced or made to
disappear!  Right.

> Also, there really isn't such a thing as "the African government". 
> There's more than one government there. It's a whole continent, you 
> know.

First it was Nigeria.  Lately, I've been seeing letters originating the
scam from South Africa.

I'm waiting for the "419" style scam to originate from Argentina and
other countries whose currency is nearly worthless.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com 
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)