This is getting so much worse. Zillions of mails from Nigeria [in particular] , promising free money, all clearly scams by the local gangsters.
But, not engaging with these chaps is not enough. The volume of them is simply getting oppressive. It amounts to a ‘denial of service’. Bloody hooligans!
I tried writing a simple request for info, from the Nigerian High Commission. No courtesy of a reply of course, but though I would try the correct way of complaint before I go to stage two 
I’ve just sent the first batch of several hundred spam mails, sent to me, forwarded on to them. Just me doing this, wont change much, but if all gave it a go .. .. .. I imagine they’ll get cross.
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Nigerian High Commissioner
London
UK.
chancery@nigeriahighcommissionuk.com
Subj: spam mail from Nigeria
Sir
As you may know, span [unsolicited email] is an international problem, and needs to be dealt with by international treaties, to most effective.
Like everyone else, I get my fair share.
However, over this last year, over 90% of such mail, arriving in my mail box, is from people in Nigeria, asking me to engage in non-existent business proposals. They usual involve the laundering of ex-presidents money etc.
To have your country so over represented in this annoying practice, may perhaps be considered my many, to be indicative of a lack of care, by your government, in its business reputation.
I guess there are millions of us in this situation, but as time goes by, the volume is increasing. You may gather, so is the annoyance of those receiving all this.
I don’t suppose that there is an easy answer, but I would ask what, if anything at all, is being done to deal with the situation.
I know little of your country, but, I think you’ll agree that your reputation international is being harmed by this plague.
I have many contacts in the UK, both friends and business, and ALL report the same situation, so it is not as if I am just an unlucky recipient. The police also say the same.
A simple request to you for information. What is being done?
If you doubt the volume of the problem I report to you, perhaps I may start to forward examples, to so demonstrate, rather than just delete by the hundred, as I currently do.
I trust I may hear from you shortly.
Very best
Alan Lodge
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Nigerian Emails africanscam.co.uk http://www.africanscam.co.uk and ….
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com further, http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm
