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Threatening Death Messages to Agents Traced to Nigeria

Those threatening e-mail messages -- which included death threats to Lancaster County real estate agents -- originated in Nigeria, police announced.

For the complete story, see my blog entry here.

According to the updated report in the Lancaster Newspapers,

"A number of local real estate agents reportedly received the e-mails two weeks ago, which happened to coincide with Valentine's Day, describing the correspondence as "just hateful."

The complete Lancaster Newspaper story is here.

Posted by George Photographer on 03/01/2008 08:43 AM

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4 Comments on Threatening Death Messages to Agents Traced to Nigeria

MAR

2008

I will go read that is very interesting and weird.

Hi George, Can you imagine some of the replies from people to the attempted scams of these folks ?

Yes, there's been a lot of that going around. Last report I saw was that the FBI had had 115 complaints filed with them, and, of course, there's lots that don't get reported.

They're not directed at real estate agents in particular, by the way (I know people who've received them who have nothing to do with the industry), but someone wanting to gather email addresses to send them to would find ours particularly easy to get, it would seem, since we need for them to be out there in order to do our work.

You have to wonder what on earth these criminals in Nigeria think that they will accomplish. We all need to report this activity every time we see it and keep the pressure on the authorities to try to stop this nonsense.

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