liadnan

I have just found in my spambox a Nigerian 419. It's a fairly traditionalist-minded version of the type, including the "do not see this letter as a junk or one of the Internet scam mails because everything I am going to tell you here has prove and evidence and we believe that only time will vindicate the just" variant: nothing special save for the amusing name of my correspondent. Good to see the old-fashioned standards still survive.

What amuses me is that I was in the past briefly involved as a junior in the very real ongoing litigation over the deceased concerned, and a slightly, err, eccentric spouse (one of a set) (acting in person), and their estate, and entitlement thereto, and where the money is in any event. The answer to the last question would seem to be "in a diplomatic bag in a left luggage office in Madrid". Perhaps I should inform my instructing solicitors...

ETA: Incidentally, judgment has just been given in the High Court on an action on a Nigerian 419. It can't be easy to run a case when the plea is "I was defrauded by the people I offered to assist with their money laundering". The words "quintessionally immeritorious" seem, for once, appropriate. And how can people with US$3.75M at their disposal be so stupid as to blow the lot on a 419?