Re: E-mail hoax targets Jews

On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:21:34 +0000 (UTC), "J J Levin"
<jjlevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The JTA has issued a warning about an e-mail hoax targeting Jews.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102067.html

Well, I guess these are equal opportunity scammers. I've had any
number of 419 spams in which the sender made born-again Christian
noises.

The one I remember most was the one in which the sender claimed to be
the widow of an African Treasury Minister and she needed to get $12
million in silver out of the country. (and, of course, since she was a
True Christian, this silver would not have been stolen from the
poverty-ridden country that had employed her husband.)

Of course, that one targeted blind greed and one can almost say that
someone who gets scammed when they thought they were going to get dibs
on stolen money deserves it.

The one being described at jta.org, on the other hand, targets ahavat
yisrael.

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