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[gullible suckers]-- I know this probably isn't the first time you're hearing about this, but chances like this don't come up very often. And the deadline is approaching. Chip in $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to go to L.A. and spend an evening with President Obama and George Clooney. We'll cover airfare and hotel for you and whoever you choose to bring with you. All you have to do to be automatically entered is donate what you can to support this campaign: https://donate.barackobama.com/Obama-and-Clooney Thanks, Julianna Julianna Smoot Deputy Campaign Manager Obama for America

FESTAC, Nigeria — As patient as fishermen, the young men toil day and night, trawling for replies to the e-mails they shoot to strangers half a world away. Most recipients hit delete, delete, delete, delete without ever opening the messages that urge them to claim the untold riches of a long-lost deceased second cousin, and the messages that offer millions of dollars to help smuggle loot stolen by a corrupt Nigerian official into a U.S. account. But the few who actually reply make this a tempting and lucrative business for the boys of Festac, a neighborhood of Lagos at the...

I just got this e-mail in my junk mail. Looks like I finally hit it big! LUCKY LOTTERY E-mail:lucky-lottery@tiscali.it Coolsingel 29b, 3022 EC Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dear Winner, We are pleased to congratulate and inform you of the exclusive result of the Lucky lottery program held on the 25th of July 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 34T 0012-11 with serial number: 23522-722,drew lucky numbers: 4-32-19-38-21-47 which consequently won in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay-out of 1,000,000 Euros (One Million Euros). All participants were selected by a computer ballot system drawn...