Hi Janet, Although this does not relate to the boer war, it is in response to a letter which could threaten the integrity of the list. It would seem that the email you received is a typical scam letter: 1. An american ex serviceman in Zimbabwe with that many medals and objects for sale? Whilst possible, the chances are the person is neither american nor ex serviceman. 2. That you cannot get hold of him via a return email address is suspicious as well. 3. The amount that the medals and objects are being sold for is not much and would not carry a person far, I'm sure that Legion members would put a much higher price on their commonwealth medals. Should they wish to sell them as a group, they would probably approach a coin/medal shop in Zimbabwe or ask a member of the legion to get a relative in the UK to investigate methods of sale and value of each item. 4. The white Zimbabwean community is normally quite close and they tend to look after each other. It is possible that a few might be struggling, but for a group of people to want to sell their medals (which they've kept for years) for so little and in the manner mentioned is suspicious. I'm fairly sure that they would find another way to generate income or sell something else of value. A scam letter was circulating a few months back purporting to be a person collecting money for Zimbabweans to relocate to the UK and/or bail them out of jail. Finally, could you please forward me the letter? Regards Mark van Zyl Cape Town. -----Original Message----- From: Janet Mills [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 16 January 2003 1:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BOER-WAR] Commonwealth Medals Hello everyone: Has anyone else received an email from "Geran" aka Chris Williams, an American ex serviceman in Zimbabwe who is trying to sell medals and paraphernalia on behalf of the local Legion members? Such an email showed up yesterday in my inbox - it said he had picked names at random from email lists. Said that the Legion members were trying to sell their medals to raise money to live on. He said the older ones won't leave. He listed 544 medals and objects which were for sale at $5 US each. If anyone is interested in seeing this email and list let me know, I don't know whether it is genuine or not, I do know that politically Zimbabwe is a "hot spot". I feel that if the veterans need help that they should get it. I forwarded the email to the HQ of the Canadian legion, didn't know what else I could do. I didn't see anyone else on the lists mention it, perhaps they just regarded it as "spam". I tried to email back but it bounced. Any ideas? Janet in -26C southern Ontario (with the wind chill) ==== BOER-WAR Mailing List ==== C J Genealogical Collections Web Page http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237