Fwd: From Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.

[Guest guest]

This was in my inbox this morning:

>Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:56:08 +0200

>Subject: From Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.

>From: " nina_dovi01 " <nina_dovi01@...>

>

>Hello Dear.

>

>My name is Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.; I am a dying woman who has

>decided to donate what I have to you and the charity organization

>around your community. I am 62 years old and I was diagnosed for

>cancer for about 2 years ago immediately after the death of my

>husband who has left me everything he worked for and because the

>doctors told me I will not live longer than some weeks because of my

>health I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $5.7m to you since I

>don't have a child.

>

>You should contact me immediately with your Complete contact

>informations so that I will put you in contact with the

>establishment to enable you arrange with them on how to get the

>money for the purpose mentioned above, I can't predict what will be

>my fate by the time you will recieve the fund, But you should please

>ensure that the fund is used as l have described above. Pls ply back to me.

>

>Best Regards,

> From Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.

I googled the name and learned that this is a Nigerian internet

scam. When I read the letter it didn't cross my mind that this was a

scam. My initial reaction was -- this woman knows who I am and what

we do; why didn't she come here immediately?

This started me thinking about Nigeria, a country that suffered

virtually no cancer until about 1956 when Royal Dutch Shell decided

that the Niger Delta was ripe for raping. They couldn't have done

this without the cooperation of military dictators who ran the

country. What an incredible confluence of a total lack of

ethics. In 1995 secret tribunals were formed to execute all leaders

of MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) who

protested that the " breadbasket of Nigeria " was turned into an

massive oil company cesspool and the now impoverished Ogoni people

were dying en masse from the round-the-clock gas flaring, the acid

rain, and literally thousands of oil spills. Even if oil production

stopped it would be unlikely that the land or its beautiful people

will ever recover.

The whole human race was born in Africa. We are all African. What

have we done to the place of our birth?

[Guest guest]

Sad isn't it?

From Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.

>From: " nina_dovi01 " <nina_dovi01@...>

>

>Hello Dear.

>

>My name is Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.; I am a dying woman who has

>decided to donate what I have to you and the charity organization

>around your community. I am 62 years old and I was diagnosed for

>cancer for about 2 years ago immediately after the death of my

>husband who has left me everything he worked for and because the

>doctors told me I will not live longer than some weeks because of my

>health I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $5.7m to you since I

>don't have a child.

>

>You should contact me immediately with your Complete contact

>informations so that I will put you in contact with the

>establishment to enable you arrange with them on how to get the

>money for the purpose mentioned above, I can't predict what will be

>my fate by the time you will recieve the fund, But you should please

>ensure that the fund is used as l have described above. Pls ply back to me.

>

>Best Regards,

> From Mrs.Nina Dovi Israel.

I googled the name and learned that this is a Nigerian internet

scam. When I read the letter it didn't cross my mind that this was a

scam. My initial reaction was -- this woman knows who I am and what

we do; why didn't she come here immediately?

This started me thinking about Nigeria, a country that suffered

virtually no cancer until about 1956 when Royal Dutch Shell decided

that the Niger Delta was ripe for raping. They couldn't have done

this without the cooperation of military dictators who ran the

country. What an incredible confluence of a total lack of

ethics. In 1995 secret tribunals were formed to execute all leaders

of MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) who

protested that the " breadbasket of Nigeria " was turned into an

massive oil company cesspool and the now impoverished Ogoni people

were dying en masse from the round-the-clock gas flaring, the acid

rain, and literally thousands of oil spills. Even if oil production

stopped it would be unlikely that the land or its beautiful people

will ever recover.

The whole human race was born in Africa. We are all African. What

have we done to the place of our birth?