permaculture

[Loren Davidson <loren@farwalker.com>]

At 02:40 PM 10/23/01 +0100, Ute Bohnsack wrote:
> Dear all,
> I just received a somewhat obscure letter purportedly from a presidential
> advisor in Nigeria, who is recruiting consultants to set up permaculture 
> centers
> in Nigeria.
> I copy the letter below.

I can't say 100%...but for a great many years, there have been numerous 
scams with similar wording out of Nigeria.  This is a different spiel than 
what I've seen before, both in regular mail and in email, so it may be 
legit.  But unfortunately, I'm suspicious.

The way the scam works is that the person(s) in Nigeria will offer you a 
large sum of money to help them, and will offer to wire you the money if 
you give them the appropriate info on your account, i.e. your account 
number and routing number.  Once they have this info, they can drain your 
account and/or use the info for creating fraudulent credit cards, etc..  If 
you receive this sort of request, DO NOT give them this information; 
contact your local postal fraud authorities and the ISPs belonging to these 
email addresses.

It would be a real shame if this were a scam.  It would mean that 
Permaculture has been recognized on the world scene...but not in the way we 
would like it to be, just as a source of additional marks.

Build soil,

Loren


Loren Davidson        Permaculturist, philosopher, writer
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"We have to create the future, or others will do it for us" - Gen. S. 
Ivanova, ret.