Another new scam!

[John Billings]

"As part of our exciting and good quality service for over firth year
FedEX Courierhave decided to give out $400,000,00 to eight people which
your lucky email was among them.Note that your lucky number fall within
our Africa booklet. Contact Mr John via Email with your details NAME;
TELEPHONE;ADDRESS. to us for remittance service: fedex.remittancebase01@yahoo.com
Regards
John Mark"

Sorry, Mr. John

[Al Udeen]

I get a lot of these scams, usually from Nigeria & some from the UK, I'm always tempted to ask them to send me $10 to see if there legit & then I will send all info they want! I wonder if I would ever get a reply W/$10? I could be the only person to ever get anything from them! What really bugs me, is them having access to my e-mail address! Naturally I hit SPAM Why can't AOL or whoever screen their e-mails?

[Don Walters]

Seems like it's our fault if we fall for these scams. Saw this in Slashdot this morning

AcidAUS writes with this nearly unbelievable snippet from today's Sydney Morning Herald: "The Nigerian high commissioner in Australia says people who are ripped off by so-called Nigerian scams are just as guilty as the fraudsters and should be jailed. Responding to a story in yesterday's Herald, which revealed Australians lose at least $36 million a year to the online scams, Sunday Olu Agbi said Australians had failed to heed repeated warnings not to deal with shady characters on the internet."

[Antolina]

Australians had failed to heed repeated warnings not to deal with shady characters on the internet."

Can't argue with that or as the quote goes... "you can't con an honest man"

The quest for a free lunch gets 'em every time