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To: TobagoJack who wrote (8118)	9/3/2001 6:05:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<I have also received a few of those enticing faxes from Nigerian military, central bank, petroleum, and construction executive types. I have had much fun punting back and forth with them, but of course that was before the days I joined SI :0)> I would have done the same, but SI is too much fun and I didn't think I really had much chance of persuading the Nigerians to send me some money so that I could prove to the bank that I was worthy of a loan so that I could send them the necessary money for cleaning fluid [I didn't get that actual scam letter - mine were something else - I forget what]. But it would have been fun. Did you act really dumb? Dumb, but trying to be smart. Catching them would be like hunting the Financial Panic People. They are on the tips of their toes, with lightning reflexes honed by eons of paranoid survival coded into their DNA. It's not easy picking off the marks in the financial world either. The sheople run for cover at the first sign of a hunter. With so many people and sheople all mixed in together, all thinking they are one of the hunters, it's not a like a simple heard, with all running in one direction. It's more like herding cats. They are going in all directions and do crazy things any time at all, including clawing up your leg and sitting on your head, hanging on with claws in your eyes and scalp. Mqurice PS: When we see the morons in the markets we should remember the rhyme: Happy little moron Sitting in the sun Doesn't know he's moron! . . . . My God!! P'raps I'm one?