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23 April 2003
 

SARS just keeps getting worse. I was watching an interview with a biology expert on Channel 4 news and he was not only worried - he was bordering on panic. He likened the current SARS problem to the outbreak of a strong strain of flu that occured in 1917. During that pandemic 30 million, yes thats 30 million people died. And thats quite a number for that date.

It seems that even Toronto, a modern Western city is not immune either. Even with a modern health system SARS seems viralent enough to spread rapidly.

The same guy on Channel 4 news called on Blair and Bush, and all world leaders to take it seriously, or it could lead to the deaths, not of hundreds or thousands, but of millions.


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For those of you who, like me, are silent fans of the Iraqi Information Minister. This pic is from his famous fan site.


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I really dont know how people fell for this:

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES,
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT,
IKOYI-LAGOS.

FROM THE DESK OF: ENGR. JAMES OSAGIE
TEL: 234 1 776 7324
ALTERNATIVE EMAIL:
jamesosagie@zwallet.com

I am the AUDITOR-GENERAL of the Federal Ministry of Water
Resources.Although this proposal might come to you as a
surprise since it is coming from someone you do not know or
ever seen before, but after due deliberations with my
colleagues, I decided to contact you based on
Intuition.

We are soliciting for your humble and confidential assistance
to take custody of Twenty-Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars.{US$28,500,000.00}. This sum (US$225M)
is an over invoiced contract sum which is currently in an
offshore payment account of the Central Bank of Nigeria as an
unclaimed contract entitlement which can easily be drafted or
paid to any recommended beneficiary by my ministry.

On this note, you will be presented as a contractor to my
ministry who! has executed a contract to a tune of the above
sum and has not been paid.

Proposed Sharing Pattern (%):

1. 60% for my colleagues. and me

2. 30% for you as a partner/fronting for us.

3. 10% for expenses that may be incurred by both parties
during the cause of this transaction.

Our law prohibits civil servants from operating foreign
accounts, hence we are contacting you.

If this proposal satisfies you, do respond as soon as possible
with the following information:

1. The name you wish to use as the beneficiary of the fund and
also your company details.

2. Your Confidential Phone and Fax Numbers to enable me send
to you the Ministry's Foreign contractors  payment application
form and more details regarding this transaction and also for
voice contact.

Further discussion will be centered on how the fund would be
transferred into your account and full details on how to
accomplish this! great opportunity of ours. Thank you and God
bless.

You can contact me immediately on my private line 234 1 776
7324 for more verbal discussion.

Looking forward to hear from you very urgently.

Best regards,
Engr. James Osagie.

Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste :
3615 LAPOSTENET (0,34?/mn) ; tél : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34?/mn)"


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