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Hi,

I am sorry I didn't inform you about my  traveling to Africa for a program called Empowering Youth to Fight Racism,  HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in  three major countries in Africa which are Ghana, South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition  that I found myself is very hard for me to explain.I am really  stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money,  passport, documents and other valuable things were
kept on my way to  the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because I have no  money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $600 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag. I need this help from you urgently to help me  back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also  need $400 to feed myself and help myself back home so please can you help me  with a sum of $1000 to sortout my problems here? I need this help so much  and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here. I  don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been  starving so please understand how urgent i needed your help.

I am sending you this e-mail from the city of lagos and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now  and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home, you need to  transfer the money through Western Union, please
email me back so that i can email you one of the Hotel Management name that you will send the western union to.

Thanks

by PeWi on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 05:26:10 PM EST
funny thing is, the person sending this, could have actually been a person  getting in a situation where he would need this kind of help...
by PeWi on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 05:28:19 PM EST
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Funny thing is that it is your signature at the bottom, PeWi, so one lends it more credence than if it came through email. You had me worried for a couple of lines.

(No, not on my way to Western Union, though ;))

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 26th, 2007 at 10:50:38 AM EST
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I really only wanted to report on the latest scam/spam email that makes its round, glad you had the same initial hmm, as i had :-)
by PeWi on Fri Oct 26th, 2007 at 12:04:01 PM EST
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