[kj] OT Fighting Corporate Rip-offs

[Phil]

I know of someone who fell for the Canadian Lottery scam thats doing
the rounds here at the moment. Basically (for those who havnt heard
this one yet) you get a phone call telling you that youve won the
Canadian lottery, however YOU have to send THEM several thousand
pounds first, before they will release your money to you! I cant
understand how anyone could be that gulible, but aparently people are
falling for it in droves!

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:52:39 +0000, you wrote:

>>From: "Lucy Cornwell" <lucy.cornwell@vetstream.com>
>>Another thing that occasionally bothers me is why some people believe =
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>I know what you mean. My friend on an evening paper in Brighton did a =
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>about a recently retired man who put virtually all his life savings into=
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>that Nigerian scam thing where you get an e-mail supposedly from the=20
>Nigerian foreign ministry (or summin like that) and they want you to =
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>a =A3thousand in some account in return for a about =A3million a later =
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>sure you've seen it.
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