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Just got this in my inbox:
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Dear Sir,

I am Mr. John Coleman and my sister is Miss Rose Coleman, we are the children of late Chief Paul Coleman from Sierra Leone. I am writing you in
absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of twenty one Million Dollars ($21,000.000.00) now in the custody of a private
Security trust firm in Europe the money is in trunk
boxes deposited and declared as family valuables by my late father as a matter of fact the company does not know the content as money, although my
father made them to under stand that the boxes belongs to his foreign partner.

Source of the money:
My late father Chief Paul Coleman , a native of Mende District in the Northerh province of Sierra Leone, was the General Manager of Sierra Leone
Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown . According to my father, this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operation's over draft and minor sales.

Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost
destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had
already made arrangement for his family thats talking about my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire with the CERTIFICATE OFDEPOSIT he made with a security firm in Europe through the aid of U.N evacuation team.

During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of Public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone
mining coop. Was one of the target looted and it was destroyed. My father including other top Government functionaries were attaked and killed by the rebels in
November 2000 because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.

As a result of my father's death , and with the news of my uncle's involvement in the air crash in Januaryit dashed our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other related
complications of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of money
on her early this year . Now my 18 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation,
we are nowlike refugees and orphans.

Our only hope now is in you and the boxes deposited in the Security Firm To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways.
1. to assist me claim this boxes from the security
Firm as our beneficiary
2. to transfer this money (USD$21M) in your name to your country
3. to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, our Adviser/ Manager

For your assistance, I have agreed with my younger sister that 15% of the total amount will be for your effort and another 5 % to cover all the expenses that may incur during the business transaction, Last, I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as no one knows our where about.

Please as you show your willingness, Forward to us your full name, address and Tel/ Fax numbers, to me via my private email address as indicated
bellow, this is for security reasons as i will only be accessing my private email earnestly awaiting your response.

Thanks.
May God bless you as you assist us.
Mr. JOHN COLEMAN.


If anyone feels like bombing this guy, the address used was joncoman@starmedia.com. I've already subscribed him to some interesting email lists:ph34r:.

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I get at least two variants of that one every day...



You have time to read email that you don't recognize the sender or subject?

I was away for 5 days, came back to about 600 emails, about 590 of them were junk
it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality

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You have time to read email that you don't recognize the sender or subject?


No choice. I have to look at every email that comes in at work - I don't always know the sender and you'd be surprised at some of the subject lines people put on their emails regarding skydiving equipment...

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No choice. I have to look at every email that comes in at work - I don't always know the sender and you'd be surprised at some of the subject lines people put on their emails regarding skydiving equipment...



Ahhh... you guys probably have the "email sales" on your web pages that people harvest the address from. In the source of my web page, my email address looks like
Email


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Seriously. Go here - see the email address? Now view source, and see if you can find my email address there. Supposed to work.
it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality

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Hey, I got one today that says I can get in on the "ground floor" of a new Multi-Million Dollar Business.

I just have to PAY $9,500 to sign up!!!!!:o:|:o

Who the Hell would Do That????????


Once the plane takes off, you're gonna have to land - Might as well jump out!!

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