Dear friends, Today I got this mail from my nephew who is in dubai... shocking to see this mail under my gmail-id... The below mail is not from me and I am very much in India. It is a hoax mail. If you have received this mail asking for help, please ignore it. I request you to forward this mail to your friends and other forums. Manjunath ------------- Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India Ph: +91-0820-2573551(0ff); 2575161(Res) email: manjunath@mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi@yahoo.com web: http://www.tapmi.org  -------------   ********** Manjunatha Keralapura <manjunathak@gmail.com> wrote: Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 03:05:35 +0100 From: "Manjunatha Keralapura" <manjunathak@gmail.com> To: manjunathak@gmail.com Subject: I Need Your Help ! How are you doing today? I am sorry I didn't  inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program ,the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa  and Nigeria . It has been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain.    I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $1550 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management., I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1600 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $3,500 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please  understand how urgent i needed your  help.   I am sending you this e-mail from the hotel cafe , I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union. please i really need your help . i promise to pay you back . -- Manjunath ------------------------- Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute ________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.