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Old 1st August 2006 | 20:17
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BOFH
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or example I get a lot of African "potential customers" wanting to buy my (fairly specialised) electronic products.

The government should subsidise entrepreneurs in one-handed bra straps, though.
MelbPilot85 (quoting lowest-common-denominator AusGov warnings)
* Ignore it!
o If it sounds too good to be true – it probably is!
* Never send any money in response to a scam offer!
o No matter how convincing the offer seems.
Sounds rather like a manifesto, really.
Those of you in the know will be aware of certain activities taking place to assist scammers in expending their time, effort, and in some cases, money on worthless causes and extreme humiliation. If you have a couple of hours a week, you can take thirty of these losers out of circulation and hopefully drive some of them mad. More will rise (or sink) to take their places, but you might just prevent someone else (usually susceptible) from being drawn in.
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