SAVE A SOUL .

[Tony Hammitt]

I finally found out what this was based on. I've read about a scam 
called the 'Spanish Prisoner' scam in a few places (like Heinlein books) 
and I never knew what it referred to. This is it. Apparently the old 
Spanish prisoners scam was about helping to smuggle some VIP out of a 
prison in hopes of getting a reward. People would keep giving the 
grifters money to pay "bribes" and "transportation costs", etc. up to 
the point of even going down to the dock where the ship was supposed to 
be coming in with flowers to greet the VIP...

So this has been going around for quite a while.

On to linux stuff... Uptime contest. Can anyone beat this on a currently 
running, in-use-daily desktop system?

$ w
3:20pm up 685 days, 18:41, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
antony pts/0 - 20Oct 1 53days 0.32s 0.32s -csh
antony pts/1 webster 29Sep 2 0.00s 0.56s 0.02s w
antony pts/2 - 8Apr 2 3days 0.28s 0.28s -csh

(BTW, that pts/0 terminal was started 20 October 2001...)

Later,

Tony

barrister williams dede wrote:

>BARRISTER WILLIAMS DEDE& CO 
>BLOCK 804-LAW HOUSE BUILDING, LEGAL 
>PRACTITIONERS/NOTARY PUBLIC) 
>LAGOS-NIGERIA 
>
>DEAR FRIEND , 
>
>IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER IRRESPECTIVE OF 
>THE FACT THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME. HOWEVER, I GOT YOUR NAME 
>THROUGH YOUR COUNTRY BUSSINESS ATTACHEE HERE IN MY SEARCH 
>FOR A RELIABLE AND TRUST WORTHY PERSON THAT CAN HANDLE SUCH 
>A CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION OF THIS NATURE. 
>
>I AM BARRISTER WILLIAMS DEDE, A FAMILY LAWYER TO OUR LATE 
>MILITARY RULER, GENERAL SANI ABACHA WHO DIED SUDDENLY IN 
>POWER ON THE 8TH OF JUNE 1998. SINCE HIS UNTIMELY DEMISE 
>THE FAMILY HAS SUFFERED A LOT OF HARRASSMENT FROM THE 
>REGIME THAT SUCCEEDED HIM.THE REGIME AND THE CIVILIAN. 
>
>RECENTLY, THE WIFE WAS BANNED FROM TRAVELLING OUTSIDE 
>NIGERIA BEING A FALL OUT FROM THE SEIZURE OF 38 SUIT CASES 
>CONTAINING CASH MONEY (800 eight hundred million USD) FROM 
>HER AT THE MURTALA MOHAMMED INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON HER 
>WAY TO SAUDI ARABIA. ALSO HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY HAS BEEN 
>RECOVERED FROM HER SON WHO IS IN INCARCERATION NOW. 
>
>THERE ARE STILL LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN HARD CURRENCY 
>SAVED WITH SOME SECURITY COMPANIES AND MRS ABACHA HAS SHOW 
>ME DOCUMENTS OF WHERE THEY DEPOSITED USD 35.5MILLION IN A 
>SECURITY VAULT FOR SAFE KEEPING. 
>
>HOWEVER, THE FAMILY IS NOW BANKRUP FOLLOWING THE 
>INCARCRATION OF MOHAMMED HER SON WHO WAS CHARGED FOR THE 
>MURDER OF KUDIRAT ABIOLA THE WIFE OF LATE CHIEF MOSHOOD 
>ABIOLA, RECENTLY THE FAMILY APPROACHED ME TO GET A 
>RELIIABLE PERSON WHO WILL CLAIM THE MONEY ON OUR BEHALF IN 
>THE SECURITY COMPANNY. THIS MONEY IS DEPOSITED IN DIPLOATIC BOXES, AS ARTIFACTS AND PERSONAL 
EFFECTS.IT IS ONLY BOTH OF US THAT KNOW IT CONTAINS CASH MONEY. 
>
>IF YOUR CONDITIONS ARE ACCEPTABLE, WE WILL PREPARE YOU 
>AS THE BENEFICIARY OF THE BOXES. WE HAVE ALL THE 
>DOCUMENTSWITHS US.THE SECURITY COMPANY HAVE CALLED US TO DO 
>SOMETHING ABOUT CLAIMING THESE BOXES WHICH WE HAVE 
>EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT WE SHALL GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM AS 
>SOON AS POSSIBLES.REMEMBER THAT WE ARE MAKING THIS CONTACT 
>BECAUSE WE CANNOT LEAVE THE COUNTRY UNTILL AFTER THE COURT CASES. 
>
>NOTE: THERE IS NO RISK INVOLVED BECAUSE I AM ALSO INVOLED 
>AS THE ABACHA'S ATTORNEY. THEREFORE, CONTACT ME ON MY 
>DIRECT EMAIL ADDRESS AS STATED ABOVE. PLEASE, IF YOU ARE 
>NOT INTERESTED JUST DESTROY THIS INFORMATION, AS THIS IS A 
>TOP SECRET.WE SHALL BE PREPARED TO DO MORE BUSINESS WITH 
>YOU AT THE END OF THIS TRANSACTION. 
>
>I AWAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE. 
>
>BEST REGARDS, 
>
>BARR.WILLIAMS DEDE. Ph.d 
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