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Very short 419 scam

Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]


Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:04:02 -0800

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Jubouri Omar <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Subject:
To: undisclosed-recipients

I want to move my family out of Iraq due to violence and I want to transfer $12,500,000 to you.reply

--- End forward ---

How nice and concise and to the point. I wish all scams were like that. But that last word is rude. Just "reply". Not "Please reply" or "Hoping to God I will hear from you soon", but just an order: "Reply!"

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Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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In honor of Jimmy. . .

Kat Tanaka Okopnik [kat at linuxgazette.net]


Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:50:12 -0800

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171.stm

The mystery of Ireland's worst driver

Perhaps the Irish police need to have our Jimmy O'Regan and his translating compatriots on the payroll!

-- 
Kat Tanaka Okopnik
Linux Gazette Mailbag Editor
[email protected]

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Published in Issue 160 of Linux Gazette, March 2009

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