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To: Craig Lacy who wrote (16478)	10/19/2000 9:49:35 AM
From: CO	Respond to of 62549

JAY LENO ON AL GORE! "Al Gore ... he once was pro-life, now he's pro-choice. He once was against gun control, now he's for it. He claimed he invented the Internet. Hey, Gore just needs to debate himself!" "Al Gore visited a bookstore today. He was shocked to find a book about everything he has said in his campaign could be found in the fiction section." "Our country has come a long way: first we had George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie. Then we had Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the truth. And now we have Al Gore, who can't tell the difference..." and now, on to the serious stuff...

To: Craig Lacy who wrote (16478)	10/19/2000 11:12:17 AM
From: Tommy Moore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Received one similar to that three times in the last year on my business fax. Always from the same place and always gets a chuckle. Nigeria, I've been told, holds the title as most corrupt country on the planet.

To: Craig Lacy who wrote (16478)	10/19/2000 11:44:47 AM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 62549

ROFL That is probably a true letter! Have you tried the YAHOO E-Mail address?

To: Craig Lacy who wrote (16478)	10/19/2000 12:33:44 PM
From: MikeyT	Respond to of 62549

Forwarded to abuse@yahoo.com. Thinking of what 40.5M USD will feed the kids.

To: Craig Lacy who wrote (16478)	10/20/2000 6:03:15 PM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Nigeria letter: A letter like that hit so many of my contacts that I contacted the FBI. They asked us all to send them the letters. They have a huge file on this fraud. Call them yourself and check it out. I even think they have a web site for this fraud but I can not remember the url. Nigeria is incredible. My brother lived in Newburyport, MA some ten years ago. A neighbor was a Pulitzer prize winning photographer working for the Boston Globe. He got a letter from some supposedly lofty Nigerian official requesting that he and a reporter from the Globe come to Nigeria, all expenses paid, to see that Nigeria was really doing quite a lot about human rights. They were met at the airport by a big black limo and lots of uniformed officials. Within half an hour they were prisoners out in the slums, locked up with a demand that they request The Globe to forward $1mm for their release. I do not know how it was settled, but at some expense to The Globe they both returned to the States after a few weeks.