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Tom:

Here's a (rough!) translation obtained via http://babelfish.altavista.com:

"I'd like to perform a lobotomy on these ^*^&^%&%$*^! "
Mamills, you are assuming this person has a brain, to perform such an operation on.....
but then again, some folks actually fall for such scams.
Tiff

Thanks for the translation,

Tom

Bill
You mean like this?, I edited the website so one couldn't click on it but otherwise its just how they sent it to me, no way would I ever go to a site that solicted me by EMail unless I requested them to. Truly bogus


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walrus,

Yep, that's the one!
I wonder how many people get pulled in on these things. It's a shame.


Bill

Tiffany:
How right you are!! I stand corrected .

It would be interesting to know how many people fall for this garbage? I feel like sending some sort of scathing reply to these scam-artists, but I fear that would lead to even more problems.

Mike (mamills)