WARNING TO ALL
Andrew Walton
account details. I've included the contents of these emails below my
sig. As this newsgroup is the only place where I advertise this
particular email address (I have a few) it is reasonable to assume
that the scammer probably got my address from here and it's also
reasonable to assume that others here will receive the same email.
Please don't fall for it.
If you do receive this email please forward it to your countries
Consumer Affairs Dept or equivalent.
If any of you here specialize in route tracing and *particular types
of information gathering* please forward whatever you can gather to
the same departments.
--
Andrew
--
Attn.,
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.
This is by virtue of its nature
as being utterly confidential and "top secret". We are top officials
of the Federal
Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of
goods into our
country with funds that are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to
commence this
business, we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your
account the said-trapped
funds.
The source of the fund is as follows: During the regime of the last
Military transitional
government of Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, government officials set up
companies and
awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over invoiced in
various ministries. The
present democratic government of President Olusegun Obasanjo set up
the Contract
Review Panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds
that are presently
floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment. However, by
virtue of our position
as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire
this money in our names. I have therefore been delegated as a matter
of trust by my
colleagues in the panel, to look for an oversea partner into whose
account we would
transfer the sum of US$31,320,000.00 (Thirty-One Million, Three
Hundred and Twenty
thousand United States Dollars) in which we hope to use in purchasing
Agro Allied
equipment, and to enable us to own properties and invest in the stable
economy of your
country. Hence, we are sending you this email message. We have agreed
to share the
money thus:
1. 20% for the account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (the officials of the CRP)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign
expenses.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message for proper briefing on the
safe modality for the
execution by strictly sending your aceptance to fax no. 234-1-7590503
or Emails:
bras...@earthling.net
Yours faithfully
Dr. Rasheed Bako
NOTE: PLEASE QUOTE THIS REFERENCE NUMBER (RB/07/02) IN ALL YOUR
REPONSE.
Mark Johnson
> In the last 24 hours I have received two emails requesting my bank
> account details. ... [snip - Nigerian scam example]
If this is the first set of scam messages, you have been way too lucky.
I use my work email address for technical posts and have been getting
one or two per week at work for several months. This is behind the
corporate firewall with a pretty hostile anti-spam filter.
To help your current situation, there are good anti-spam suggestions at...
http://www.forumscentral.com/email/spam.htm
though several of these are specific to Compuserve. In addition, you may
need to switch ISP's. I have another account at another ISP where I get
tons of unsolicited email - a ratio of 20 junk mail entries to the one
or two real messages I want.
--Mark
Andrew Walton
Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> To help your current situation, there are good anti-spam suggestions
at...
> http://www.forumscentral.com/email/spam.htm
Thanks for that, I took some advice and hopefully the problem will die
down again soon. I've been sent the occasional virus by mailer bots
before but I've never seen this much outright spam. They've sent four
more during the day.
For the spammers: I wish you poverty, misery, and a long life to live
it in.
--
Andrew
Andrew Rodland
"Andrew Walton" <andrew...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In the last 24 hours I have received two emails requesting my bank
> account details. I've included the contents of these emails below my
> sig. As this newsgroup is the only place where I advertise this
> particular email address (I have a few) it is reasonable to assume
> that the scammer probably got my address from here and it's also
> reasonable to assume that others here will receive the same email.
>
Ack, so it's THIS place that brought that on!
I've been getting that crap for a few months now, I never realized that
it's been about since I came back here. :)
Dayv!
>
> Ack, so it's THIS place that brought that on!
> I've been getting that crap for a few months now, I never realized that
> it's been about since I came back here. :)
Posting to any newsgroup with an undisguised email address is
(unfortunately) just asking for spam these days. Even a simple spamblock
like the one I insert in my address is automatically removed by some of
the more "intelligent" address-collection spiders.
--
-Dayv!
"I didn't even know Hitler *had* personal sex midgets!"
Yeti Pino
news:3d3b42ad$0$11265$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
> In the last 24 hours I have received two emails requesting my bank
> account details. I've included the contents of these emails below my
> sig. As this newsgroup is the only place where I advertise this
> particular email address (I have a few) it is reasonable to assume
> that the scammer probably got my address from here and it's also
> reasonable to assume that others here will receive the same email.
>
> Please don't fall for it.
I think you got version 3.1 of the same email I am getting for months now.
Yeti
Andrew Walton
>Even a simple spamblock
> like the one I insert in my address is automatically removed by some
of
> the more "intelligent" address-collection spiders.
>
I had a look at your email addy, does this mean what I've done to mine
is useless?
--
Andrew
Dayv!
>
> I had a look at your email addy, does this mean what I've done to mine
> is useless?
It's not useless, but it won't be 100% effective. It will probably
help a lot, though. Unfortunately, once your email address is on a few
spam lists, it will be on them forever and may get traded around to other
spammers.
Maullar_Maullar
right through that scam.
Chi
[about what seems to be a variant of the Nigerian Letter scam]
> Heh. Anyone who's smart enough to like Nethack is smart enough to see
> right through that scam.
What scam?
Please quote _some_ context in your posts... please? You've been around
the Newsgroup for some time now, and you still do things like this...
Regards,
Chris.
Ivan Kozik
You need a threaded newsreader.
Richard Bos
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 04:01:33 -0700, Chi wrote:
>
> > Please quote _some_ context in your posts... please? You've been around
> > the Newsgroup for some time now, and you still do things like this...
>
> You need a threaded newsreader.
Threaded newsreaders do not excuse one from basic netiquette.
Richard
Chi
[snip the entire of my post, including my signing off, regarding
Maullar_maullar's lack of context in his post]
>
> You need a threaded newsreader.
I have a threaded newsreader thanks. What relevence does this have,
especially since I read news across an ssh shell...?
For the umpteenth time, Usenet is a _distributed medium_. Just because
you have a copy of the parent post on your newsserver, doesn't mean
everyone else does. Messages are not guaranteed to arrive, and
furthermore are certainly not guaranteed to arrive in order of time.
Thats why you need to keep some context of the original post.
It really must be September again... this is usually quite a courteous
and netiqette-respectful newsgroup.
Regards,
Chris.
David Damerell
>Ivan Kozik <spam...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> [snip the entire of my post, including my signing off, regarding
> Maullar_maullar's lack of context in his post]
>>You need a threaded newsreader.
>you have a copy of the parent post on your newsserver, doesn't mean
>everyone else does. Messages are not guaranteed to arrive, and
>furthermore are certainly not guaranteed to arrive in order of time.
You missed "and, even with a threaded newsreader, buggering about because
some clown doesn't believe in context is more of a pain than just reading
articles is."
--
David Damerell <dame...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?