[muglo] Re: FW: [freelists-users] Re: Romanian Requests

If you do get these, just send them to the "cc" on this list where the CDN
gov't tracks these scams.

Garth.

> 
> If you have been receiving any of these messages, as I have, you might be
> interested in the following.
> 
> Paul
> 
> ----------
> From: "Zingus J. Rinkle" <zingus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:48:25 +0200
> To: freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [freelists-users] Re: Romanian Requests
> Resent-From: "Zingus J. Rinkle" <1999s039@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Resent-To: freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:52:10 +0200
> 
> 
> 
>>> Nothing from Romanian on my ~60 member list.  Lots from Nigeria and
>>> other African locations.  Some members, including myself, let an e-mail
>>> address slip through in our message body, we're now much beset by the
>>> 491 scamsters.  We've locked our archive, but that's like closing the
>>> barn after the livestock have left. :(
>> What are the 491 scamsters?  Sounds like something everyone should be
>> careful about.
> 
> People who perpetrates (or tries to perpetrate) 419 "nigerian
> scams", I believe. Stuff like: "Here's the son of the king of
> Congo, brutally dethronized by evil forces, seeking people like
> you to mess with money I must hide." Nothing people which fires
> up their brain while reading their mail should ever give credit.
> Still some did, and wasted money, or worst.
> 
> And now, for some insightful links on the topic:
> http://www.upenn.edu/computing/security/advisories/419scam.html
> http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
> 
> Scammingly,
> Zingus
> 
> PS: Hello, list. :-)


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