Somebody forwarded this email to me. The interesting part is that it mentions bob minton's web site:

-----Original Message-----
From: Mohammed [mailto:chiefmrs@wowmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:48 PM
To: x
Subject:

Attention:

I am Mohammed Abacha, the eldest son of the late president of Nigeria, i was falsely accused of murder and as such was imprisoned, but thanks to Allah, i have been released for my innocence. Well dear friend i need your assistance in securing my fund with is in a security company in europe, because the government is making plans to seize them, as they did to my fathers own.Please view these sites and read it's content carefully,

www.bobminton.org

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_741000/741506.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1935631.stm

The amount is $35 million in a Security company Abroad. All that is needed is for secure all neccessary documents and certificate and send to the company on your behalf and they will have to contact you immediately everything is sett, I will remunerate you with 20% at the end, but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction. I have been confined only to Kano and all my calls are monitored,So i will get my private attorney to get you the needed information.

Best Regards

Mohammed Abacha

From: Warrior <warrior@xenu.ca>
Subject: Re: Nigeria scam email mentions Minton
Date: 26 Jun 2003 14:36:42 -0700
Message-ID: <bdfp1a01spi@drn.newsguy.com>

In article <vfmp51h8v3i396@corp.supernews.com>, Jeff Jacobsen wrote:

>
>Somebody forwarded this email to me. The interesting part is that
>it mentions bob minton's web site:

Crsnic.net hasn't heard of bobminton.org http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=bobminton.org

It's nevertheless interesting that the scamster used bobminton.org in the email.

Warrior - Sunshine disinfects http://warrior.xenu.ca

Message-ID: <3EFB6E73.587A1C9E@bc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:06:43 -0700
From: Chris Leithiser <cleithis@bc.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Nigeria scam email mentions Minton

Warrior wrote:

>
> In article <vfmp51h8v3i396@corp.supernews.com>, Jeff Jacobsen
> wrote:
> >
> >Somebody forwarded this email to me. The interesting part is that
> >it mentions bob minton's web site:
>
> Crsnic.net hasn't heard of bobminton.org
> http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=bobminton.org
>
> It's nevertheless interesting that the scamster used
> bobminton.org in the email.

It's one of Fred Rice's sites.

From: ptsc <ptsc@nowhere.com>
Subject: Re: Nigeria scam email mentions Minton
Organization: Busts Your Rips!
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:29:16 GMT

On 26 Jun 2003 14:36:42 -0700, Warrior <warrior@xenu.ca> wrote:

>In article <vfmp51h8v3i396@corp.supernews.com>, Jeff Jacobsen
>wrote:
>>
>>Somebody forwarded this email to me. The interesting part is that
>>it mentions bob minton's web site:

>Crsnic.net hasn't heard of bobminton.org
>http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=bobminton.org

That's because csrnic doesn't handle .org any more. It's been taken over by publicinterestregistry.net

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>It's nevertheless interesting that the scamster used
>bobminton.org in the email.

It would tend to show up in searches for Abacha. Presumably the scammer is attempting to lend bogus credibility to his fraud by citing third party sites.