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

[Steve Long]

There is something you can do.

Here is a story of what somebody has done.  If nothing else it has a picture
that is worth a thousand words.

http://www.angelfire.com/comics/wendywillcox/



----- Original Message -----
From: "Fulton Green" <ale at FultonGreen.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "John Mills" <john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Kevin Krumwiede" <krum at smyrnacable.net>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Anyone else getting stupid money-transfer spams?


> 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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