[ale] OT: Anyone else getting stupid money-transfer spams?

[Fulton Green]

Nope, I'm just getting all "The best teen site is not totally free" messages
from Nigeria.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:03:08AM -0400, John Mills wrote:
> > I have received several of them since yesterday.  I nmap all spammers
> > and usually I find open mail relays, but this time the senders are
> > mostly buttoned up tight.  Anyone else getting this?
> 
> Yeah - the 'Nigerian Ponzi' business has gotten real active. I get several
> a day. In theory the US State Dept. tracks these and sometimes I forward
> them on to a security officer who forwards them to DoS. I don't know if
> there is any point in that exercise when I get 4-5/day!

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