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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-05-24 12:40 pm
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giggle giggle giggle

In the spam bucket just now:
Dear Sir, I am Chris Parker, a senior manager (protocol) with an American oil services company, HALIBURTON, based in the oil rich niger delta. As you might have read in the international media last year, Haliburton was involved in a bribery scandal running into hundreds of million US dollars here in Nigeria.[...]

[identity profile] rimrunner.livejournal.com 2004-05-24 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
I love how successive incarnations of the Nigerian spam reflect recent events. For awhile there, I was able to use it as a metric of civil unrest in Africa.