Letters from Nigeria

NPR ran a short segment on those famous Email Letters from Nigeria commonly called Cash Upfront letters that spring up in our email boxes ever so often.  I've gotten more than my share and when I do I usually respond with a suggestion of where the author "can put it" but was advised this morning on NPR just simply to delete the emails.  Don't be smart and respond as your email addresss simply gets sold to others and then the real spam starts (I'm talking 100 spams a day.

Also, in case you are wondering why Nigeria doesn't do anything about this cottage industry.....well it brings millions of US dollars into the economy there so why interrupt a good thing.

Oh my.

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