George It's called 419 fraud because that's the chapter of the Nigerian legal = code it contravenes. Now the Nigerian Police are taking a more aggressive attitude to the = offence the fraudsters are moving the goal posts and originating the fraud from other countries, they are the same groups, usually families and normally from West Africa. What I want to know is how do fools and their money get together in the first place? =20 cheers! Gordon From Glorious Devon, England. email: gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf = Of George Bell Sent: 25 August 2004 22:59 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: spam abuse e-mail's Hi Justin, These have been going around the Internet for a few years now. Under no circumstances reply or get involved in any way. Delete them. It's scan known by Interpol as "419 Fraud". I'm ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq