Posted by apb on Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 11:09:13 :
All messages of that type originate in Nigeria, regardless of the purported return address, or the seemingly English-sounding names of the senders.
First, I go to the Nigerian Embassy website. (See below) Then I copy and paste the entire email onto their "send us comments" page. I suspect that nothing ever happens at the other end, but if all 250 million of us did it, we might get them a tad annoyed.
http://www.nigeriaembassyusa.org/f_index.html