[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules spam.c,1.1.2.3,1.1.2.4

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Tue, 15 May 2001 14:11:26 +0200


thomas wrote:

> Actually, one of my colleagues informed me that this spam is in fact
> *very old*

more info here:

http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/index.htm

    "A Five Billion US$ (as of 1996, much more now) worldwide
    Scam which has run since the early 1980's under Successive
    Governments of Nigeria.

    "The Nigerian Scam is, according to published reports, the
    Third to Fifth largest industry in Nigeria."

Cheers /F (highest offer this far: $155,000,000)