Wow! We could be in a lot of trouble!

[RealityChuck]

Our group got this e-mail message:

Message from INSPECTOR LEONARD
Email address leoslovecourt@yahoo.com

Dear sir,
My name is Leonard. i am an inspector of the Nigerian police. We have received several reports that your committee now induge in fruadlent activites now using the internet the scam our fellow nigerians.

We have the email address of these fraudsters in your committee. Now, our superiour has order me to inform you to send to us all the email address of your Albacon committee member to us through leoslovecourt@yahoo.com so that we go through them and fish out these scammer amongest your committee orelse, the world will be made know that Albacon committee is a committee of scammer and will face the law.

This sounds serious.

And, of course, it was good that I got this confirmation that a police officer sends out official business from a Yahoo address, and that Nigerians evidently believe a username like “leoslovecourt” makes things sound even more official.

I probably should have tweaked his e-mail account name to keep the address away from spammers. Yup. Probably should have done that.

[Ice_Wolf]

Well, at least it’s different.

[Julius_Henry]

This could be serious. If I were you, I’d gather all the necessary information and then forward everything to Mangetout. He’ll know what to do.

[guizot]

Have you called your lawyer yet? After all, the Nigerian Grand Jury is obviously on your doorstep.

[Rico]

Of course, if you pay them $25,000 in up front money, they’ll not only clear you of all charges, but they’ll be happy to turn you on to a friend of theirs, who will let you pose as his dead uncle to collect a $25,000,000 inheritance, which they’ll be happy to let you keep 70% of it for your troubles.