attached hoax

[Judith Lang & Lynton Land]

Hello all,
I can't attest to any killings, but I can assure you that since 1998, I have
seen at least four different versions of this same scan (which I have
deleted after the first paragraph below), all emanating from Nigeria! 
Judy


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>From: "Ron Hill" <Ron.Hill at noaa.gov>
>To: coral list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
>Subject: attached hoax
>Date: Mon, Nov 27, 2000, 9:37 AM
>

>Last week we got notification from our computer security group about
>this hoax.  There has apparently been one man killed after going to
>Nigeria to try to take advantage of this. There is no need to read the
>whole message (recent criticism of long messages)- you will get the idea
>after the first couple of lines.  I just thought the warning should be
>spread to our wider audience.
>
>cheers,
>ron 
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:16:19 -0800
>From: "haruna gana" <h_gana at yahoo.com>
>To: <ron.hill at noaa.gov>
>
>
>  FROM: HARUNA GANA
>E-MAIL:h_gana at yahoo.com
>DEAR SIR,
>  URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
>IT IS MY PROFOUND INTENTION TO WRITE TO YOU THIS VERY IMPORTANT AND
>HIGHLY
>CONFIDENTIAL LETTER.I AM A RETIRED CIVIL SERVANT WITH THE NIGERIAN
>NATIONAL
>PETROLEUM CORPORATION (N.N.P.C.). DURING MY SERVICE I WAS IN-CHARGE OF
>OIL
>ALLOCATION DEPARTMENT.
>I GOT YOUR INFORMATION FROM YOUR ASSOCIATION E-MAIL DIRECTORY.
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