[CLUE-Talk] FW: Letter from SCO

Jef Barnhart jef at batky-howell.com
Fri Aug 15 13:11:07 MDT 2003


Oh come on Jeff. You don't really believe that this is a real letter do
you?

UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY EXTRACTING OUR FUNDS FROM
THESE COMPUTER SOFTWARES. TO THIS EFFECT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE
MANDATE BY MY COLLEAGUES TO CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR YOUR
ASSISTANCE. WE ARE PREPARED TO SELL YOU A SHARE IN THIS
ENTERPRISE, WHICH WILL SOON BE VERY PROFITABLE, THAT WILL GRANT
YOU THE RIGHTS TO USE THESE VALUABLE SOFTWARES IN YOUR BUSINESS
ENTERPRISE. UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE NOT ABLE AT THIS TIME TO SET A
PRICE ON THESE RIGHTS. THEREFORE IT IS OUR RESPECTFUL SUGGESTION,
THAT YOU MAY BE IMMEDIATELY A PARTY TO THIS ENTERPRISE, BEFORE
OTHERS ACCEPT THESE LUCRATIVE TERMS, THAT YOU SEND US THE NUMBER
OF A BANKING ACCOUNT WHERE WE CAN WITHDRAW FUNDS OF A SUITABLE
AMOUNT TO GUARANTEE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS ENTERPRISE. AS AN
ALTERNATIVE YOU MAY SEND US THE NUMBER AND EXPIRATION DATE OF
YOUR MAJOR CREDIT CARD, OR YOU MAY SEND TO US A SIGNED CHECK FROM
YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT PAYABLE TO "SCO GROUP" AND WITH THE AMOUNT
LEFT BLANK FOR US TO CONVENIENTLY SUPPLY. 

This is just a spoof of the Nigerian 401 letter.

Jef

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:11, Jeff Cann wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2003 8:31 am, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > What?  It's all in caps!  How rude.
> 
> It just shows that SCO is a total bush league company.
> 
> I can't wait until all of the 'Old SCO' and Caldera contributions are made 
> more public in this case:
> 
> + http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/11.html
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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