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Another internet scam...
Here is a good one... I got this email a couple of days ago... I ignored it.
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Should I just send these to the FBI? L
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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We get those emails at work all the time!!! It's rather annoying
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The old Nigerian banking scam. It's been around for several years.
http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/library/blnigeria.htm KuoH |
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Ah... The joy of running your own mail server and using RBL's to block them... The best way to filter the SPAM.
But then, I guess I'm missing out on those hilarious e-mails as well. Lwin, I thought you were running your own servers. Why aren't you filtering it at the mail server level? Why more ISP's don't implement a RBL is beyond me. VK |
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hehe. Lwin ps. I have one of those perm. alumni accounts.
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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I've gotten into several back-and-forths with senders of emails like that.
They were insisting it was legit, and were very tolerant of my antagonizing and obvious threatening replies. They even refered me to their attorney's email, who I contacted. He also insisted everything was legit. They stopped replying when I told them I reported them to the feds. Unfortunately most of these senders are outside the US, so there isn't much our authorities can do, since many foreign authorities are not willing to cooperate. |
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I got another one today - some guy claiming to be a Belgian looking for donations because he had to pay for his wife's cancer treatments and his business partner left town with all the money and business assets and . . . and . . . and . . .
He has a $25 minimum on donations. My thought was "Hey, dude, if you're in that bad a shape, you oughta be happy no matter how little some kind soul sends you". He gives a bank account number and everything. Maybe these Nigerians will withdraw all the money the Belgian's getting.
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Dick ************** 1999 Legacy GT 30th Anniversary Edition 2001 Outback Sport |
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i'd have fun with it unitl they get annoyed and leave you alone. send them a disturbing photo of you in a prom dress and see if they still harass you.
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Alan 1987 928 S4 (Black) SOLD! 1997 SVX LSi (Ebony) SOLD! 2005 Legacy GT (Silver) [Cobb Stg 2+] SOLD! 1987 928 S4 (Black) SOLD! 2005 Forester XT Premium (Crystal Gray Metallic) SOLD! 2008 Lancer Evolution X MR (Apex Silver) [Cobb Stg 1+] 2015 Outlander Sport 2.4GT AWD (Mercury Gray) 2013 G37xS (Obsidian Black) |
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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Actually the FTC has setup an email addy just for this: uce@ftc.gov. They urge people to send any and all spam they get to this address so they can begin to try and find the offenders and stop spam (yeah, right). Whether or not it happens in any of our lifetimes remains to be seen... I've already forwarded them this one at least once, but they are trying to get an idea of how wide spread these scams are so you might want to send it there too.
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