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Date: December 7, 2004, 6:31 am
From: "Mabwano Chow" (address classified)
To: Undisclosed Recepient(s)

Dear Sir.

Your contact information was referred to me by one of my trusted contacts, whose name I am not at liberty to compromize. I would like to approach you with reguards to a profitable Business Proposal, reguarding the transfer of FOURTEEN MILLION ($14000000) U.S. Dollars into your Bank Account. For reasons I am sure you will appreciate, I ask that you keep this commucation confidential, and avoid it falling into the hands of any agents of the Sierra Leone Secret Police that may be operating in Your area.

My name is Mabwano Chow, and I am the Son of Deeoni C., the recently Deceased General in the People's Army of Sierra Leone. If you have been following the events in my country over the last few years, you will remember the big scandal that took place when C. was found dead in an alley, from an alledged overdose of Tylenol Flu.

You see, my Father had a lot of enemies among the other Generals, who envied his great secret fortune. It was they who removed him in the hope to gain access to the money looted from various villages that the Army has ransacked under his command. Fortunately, there was too much scandal and media coverage in the aftermath of C.'s death for them to move openly to claim his money. This gave me and a few trusted people who were still loyal to my Father, an opportunity to move the money into a secret account at the Second Central Bank of Sierra Leone.

While we managed to do this without the Sierra Leone Secret Police becoming aware of our activities, the money cannot remain in this account, because at the end of the tax year, all deposits and interest will be reported to the Taxation Bureau of Sierra Leone, where our enemies have informants in their pay. The only option available to us, is transfering the money to a trusted partner who is a foreign national and cannot be linked to Deeoni C. in any way.

As your name was brought to my attention by a very trusted contact in Sierra Leone's Foreign Office, I have been authorized by my partners to contact you with this Proposal. All that would be required of you is the use of your bank account to perform a transfer of FOURTEEN MILLION ($14000000) U.S. Dollars. Once the money has been deposited, one of C.'s other Sons will contact you, at which point you will release NINE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($9800000) of the amount into his custody.

I am authorized by my Father's estate in Sierra Leone to offer you the remaining FOUR MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($4200000) as a compensation for your services. Because the money would only need to be in your bank account for a few days, and your danger of being discovered by The Sierra Leone Secret Police is minimal, we believe the commission of THIRTY PERCENT (30 %) to be more than generous.

Once I have received Your consent and Bank Account number, I will be able to make a claim under Your name with The Pan-African Insurance Company for the above sum. We have a friend on the Board Of Oversight in that organization who has assured me that the claim will be processed without raising any red flags, and the money will be released into Your Bank Account no later than within SEVEN (7) days from the time I receive your response.

I am at your disposal to answer any questions you may have about this Transaction, so don't hesitate to contact me via telephone, at +1-555-555-6366 (Just ask for Mabwano). I eagerly await your reply, though I must ask you to treat this matter with great secrecy, lest you betray me and my partners to the agents of Sierra Leone Secret Police.

Respectfully Yours,

Mabwano Chow

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Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000.Now add 10. What is the total?

Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100.

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As hi has no IQ leeft, this thign wil b ovr by .. umm.. ehhh... tinkin...

Be Nice To Me: I Gave Points Today!
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Like this one

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Re: your sig (donate IQ points)

I just hacked the system. Click on this link to get ten free IQ points!

You will see that you have successfully donated -10 IQ points, which now means that you can solve math problems you could not solve before.

Please do not take more than your share, though. Dave Berry of the Miami Herald is already reporting that some people down there have suffered from ... well, explosions.

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Dear Sir.
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