Strange Spam I got [Arms soliciting from a foreign entity!]

spam ( TEMI JOHNSON ) | unknown really... I got this on 9-17-2002 | TEMI JOHNSON

[TheBigB]

Dear Mr. Johnson... Thank you for your email. I am honored...honored...that you would ask me for help in your time of need. I have always stated that The USA is a best friend to the Congolese Republic. I will immediately let you know of my PO Box number and bank account number as soon as I have things "straightened out", pending a divorce. However, if you could possibly wire me about $25,000, I will immediately get to work in setting up a false account for the deposit (trust me, I've done it a lot). I would be glad to come over and meet your colleagues, assuming of course that TV cameras are involved. Plus a hoagie and a virgin or two, if you could spare them.

Thank you again for your trust, I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

William Jefferson Clinton, Esq.

[Jeff Gordon]

This is a variation on the common Nigerian 419 Scam. You can find out more about it at: Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website

[Kenton]

Thanks for the kind offer Mr. Johnson, but why don't you just take the money, buy the arms, and send them to the white farmers in Zimbabwe instead?

[cavador]

I get these in Australia evey second week.-I just block them.
The first half dozen i Just forwarded to the South African Law Authorities(INTERPOL) and ASIO but I got sick and tired of doing their dirty work.I am inderectly responsible for the first few arrests over there.
Whenever the bob up in my inbox,I just block them and hope they will soon run out of email adresses to send from.
My advice to you is to just keep blocking them.Eventually they'll give up when enough of their scam emails keep bouncing back to them.

[Twodees]

It ain't spam, it's a con game. They want you to set up an account for them to transfer their $20million into. You'll be asked to put a few thousand into the account to make it look good. What I do when I get some of this kind of email from Africa is to reply to it stating that I just forwarded it to our Department of Homeland Security's office of international fraud and terrorism. They don't know what offices or even departments we have in our government. If my response gives them a bad moment, that's about the best I expect anyway.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Go ahead and send him your bank wire info.

You'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams.

[gcruse]

My advice to you is to just keep blocking them.Eventually
they'll give up when enough of their scam emails keep bouncing back
to them.

Well, no.  Blocking just means the email is
deleted at your ISP server or by your own
email reader, depending on how you set
things up.  Neither action bounces anything
back to the sender.