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West African owlseller contacts El Reg

Laptop-hunting 419er suffers dictionary crisis

By Lester Haines → More by this author

Published Tuesday 11th April 2006 15:10 GMT

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This just in: our Reg Hardware tentacle has earned its spurs by attracting the following 419 email regarding, well, read on:

From: OKIKI [mailto:okiki4real007@yahoo.com]
Sent: 10 April 2006 15:38
To: Lars-Göran Nilsson
Subject: Reg reader comment: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi 1536

I AM OKIKIOLA BY NAME, I AM A OWLSELLER IN THE WEST AFRICA, I WILL LIKE TO BE BUYING THIS PRODUCT IF YOU CAN BE SELLING FOR ME, I AM CAPABLE TO BE PAYING YOU IN BANK DRAFT, I WILL WANT TO HERE FROM U SOON.

Nice one. Okikiola, we have a suggestion: scrub the laptop and get yourself a dictionary instead. ®

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