[thechat] (great spam) FW: Urgent Assistance
Bob Davis
bobd at members.evolt.org
Thu Aug 2 10:23:14 CDT 2001
At 4:02 PM +0100 8/2/01, you wrote:
>Reasonably well known scam - been going for at least
>10 years in one form or another. Of course, email makes it
>all easier...
I think the con, in general terms, is called "the spanish prisoner".
I wish I could find a concise definition, but it's basically -- you
drop in a small amount of money to free up a much larger amount of
money that is being held up in "a spanish prison". It originally was
a beautiful woman who stood to inherit a large amount of money. If
you pay her bail (to her "brother"), you would get the girl and,
therefore, the money.
It's supposedly hundreds of years old.
bob
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