July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
by Nomen Nescio 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

Nomen Nescio wrote: > > Are you saying that if someone is legally resident in the US > > for a while, the US IRS will attempt to get his assets all > > over the world forever? I find this hard to believe. On 10 Jul 2002 at 15:40, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: > Not necessarily "get" them, but tax them. Believe! So what you are suggesting is that I might as well take out US citizenship, since the IRS behaves just as piratically and imperially to anyone who gets a job in the US?

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PLEA FOR SINCERE ASSISTANCE
by ENGR.BALA OWOLABI 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

ENGR.BALA OWOLABI FEDERAL SECRETARIAT, LAGOS, NIGERIA. Best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained in this letter.Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first solicit you to treat it with utmost confidentiality, as this is required for its success. My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria's Contracts Review Panel who are interested in diverting some funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria.In order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this financial quarter. The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime, government officials awarded contracts that were grossly over-invoiced to Contractors.The present civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed outstanding amounts. My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for our own purposes. However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel,we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names of companies that are based in Nigeria. I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer the sum of U.S.$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million,five hundred thousand U.S. Dollars). That is why I am writing you this letter. You are at liberty to discuss with us what you feel should be your percentage share of the funds for assisting us.However,10% of the funds has been set aside to offset expenses incurred by both you and us incidental to the actualisation of this project.As soon as we receive the funds,the 10% will be used to settle both paties for expenses before we start the disbursment. We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other business till we are ready and able to have access to them. Please note that this transactionis 100% safe and risk-free. We intend to effect the transfer within a few days from the date of receipt of the following information: Your name or company name, address, telephone and fax numbers. The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way, we will use your name to apply for the payment and backdate the award of the contract to you. We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter and, I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you. Best regards, Engr.Bala Owolabi

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RE: sorry about last nite... - barbarously
by offenders 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

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I saw your email
by abcd4632i17＠yahoo.com 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

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I saw your email
by abcd5326x00＠yahoo.com 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

I saw your email on a website I visited yesterday, and thought you might be interested in this. A few months back I joined a program and then...promptly forgot about it. You may have done this yourself sometime...you intend to work the program but then get caught in your day-to-day activities and it's soon forgotten. The program was free to join so maybe I just didn't take it very seriously. Anyway, near the end of May I received a letter from my sponsor (Vic Patalano) informing me that I had more than 2000 PAID members in my downline! As you can imagine, I was very skeptical. After all, how could I have more than 2000 paid members under me in a program that I had never promoted? I took the time to check out the site...then wrote to Vic asking for confirmation that these were paid members and not just free sign-ups...like me :) Well, it was true...I had 2365 paid members in my downline. This in a program that I had never worked! All I had to do was upgrade to a paid membership before the end of the month and I would have my position locked in and a downline of 2365 people. You can bet I wasted no time in getting my membership upgraded! I can tell you, if I had known what was happening with this program, I would have become an active paid member months ago! With this program, you will get a HUGE downline of PAID MEMBERS. My sponsor's check, which is a minimum of $5,000, arrives every month...on time. How would you like to lock your position in FREE while you check out this opportunity and watch your downline grow? To grab a FREE ID#, simply reply to:codjig5@lycos.com and write this phrase: "Email me details about the club's business and consumer opportunities" Be sure to include your: 1. First name 2. Last name 3. Email address (if different from above) We will confirm your position and send you a special report as soon as possible, and also Your Free Member Number. I'll get you entered and let you know how you can keep track of your growing downline. That's all there's to it. I'll then send you info, and you can make up your own mind. Warm regards, Bruce Stevens P.S. After having several negative experiences with network marketing companies I had pretty much given up on them. This company is different--it offers value, integrity, and a REAL opportunity to have your own home-based business... and finally make real money on the internet. Don't pass this up..you can sign up and test-drive the program for FREE. All you need to do is get your free membership. Unsubscribing: Send an emailmarked Unsubscribe to gitrman(a)excite.com 5641fCaN2-712HnJw0198rCGp8-473LTCf8905pBdl1-743jBkt75l50

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Re: "to outlaw general purpose computers"
by A.Melon 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

On 10 July 2002, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> wrote: > If your box can support current PC100 / PC133 SIMMs, you can probably > upgrade it with enough memory to run the newer applications ok, but > the generation of machines with Fast Page Mode 72-pin memory tends to > be limited to 32MB or sometimes less, and 386s tend to be 8MB. It's so difficult for the layperson to find affordable replacements for those older machines, unfortunately. I was running X11 on a 386DX40 with 5MB of RAM for quite a while. It was slower than a dog with no legs. Eventually I had some SIMMs go bad, and they were too expensive to replace, so I ended up investing in a newer computer instead. Mr Anonymous

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Slashdot | Cable Companies Saying No to WiFi Sharing (fwd)
by Jim Choate 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/10/1257234.shtml?tid=98 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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cypherpunks@lne.com
by anonimo arancio 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

On reflection, I did not make my situation clear. I made a fair bit of money in my home country, despite a corrupt kleptocratic government that that does its best to prevent people from earning an honest living. I came to the US, became a green card holder and made a fair bit more money, and now would like to return to my home, where the cost of living is way lower, the food is much better, the skies are bluer, the ocean is warmer, the girls are prettier, and there is now no way whatever to earn an honest living. Fortunately I can afford to retire young. I am considering becoming a US citizen immediately before I leave. My concern is that if I become a US citizen, the IRS might want to tax me wherever I go.

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