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7 June 2003

WHAT has happened to Britain’s special relationship with the US? When a colleague tried to email a friend in Texas, his message was blocked and he got this back from the server: “Received: 557 Your IP address is from a blacklisted country. Disconnecting.”

LAST week we reported how scammers have started posing as relatives of former Iraqi officials such as Tariq Aziz, who have supposedly left behind huge sums of money that need laundering. Now a colleague tells of receiving an email saying that someone with the same last name as his had died with all his family in a…

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