RE: Spammers/Scammers and formats used

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:08:50 -1000
To:	hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
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On 10 Jan 2003, at 15:33, cbirds wrote:

> David Jones tapped out this message on 1/10/2003 3:17 PM 
> 
> >It's been done. US government went after a bunch of folk
> >behind that Nigerian money transfer scam. Others have
> >successfully sued spammers in states that have those
> >kinds of laws.
> >
> >The real problem becomes collecting any judgement 
> >you might get.
> 
> I agree, but then why did I get no less than 4 of those
> NIGERIAN scams just this week? I was in the hospital for
> about 4 days, knocked out cold, and when I returned to my
> computer, the spammers had had quite a heyday and out of
> 1,048 messages 40% were spam!

Cuz there are a lot of scammers out there, and they 
learn from each other. Con artists have been like that 
for centuries.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

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