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Did you guys and gals get the same piece of spam I received at all 22 of my email addresses this morning? I suspect George C. is the culprit. It's got his cadence:

Federal Bureau of Investigation 
(FBI) Headquarters Washington D.C.
J. Edgar Hoover Building 
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System (run by M Foxman) that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Mr. Tito Mboweni Republic of the Reserve Bank Of South African, aka Mr. Geoffrey Shlaes, Mr Bruce Levy, none officials of ABSA Bank, FNB Banks, michael Bukuvalas of HSBC, Dennis of FedEx, Jayman Roif, Bobaloo Wolff are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you, like Art Lowenstein, fold every hand unless you've got ace, two, three, four at the outset and George isn't dealing.

It goes on. All you've got to do is give them your most precious and secure information, like P. Wolf's tell. (Whadda crazy? I'd NEVER give that up. Well, maybe once a night if you're listening.) Oh, and there's this, too:

send the payment of $180.00 Dollars only via Western Union or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your International Approval Slip

So that's how Mike B. got his International Approval Slip and crossed the Hudson. I've been wondering about that ....