[THIN] Re: OT : humour, nigerian money scams

From: Michael Earley <Michael.Earley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:32:33 +1000
The only difficulty with sending them an email is that then they have
confirmed your email address and can put that on their "valid" list to sell
on to other spam marketers.  My policy is: delete spam without reading (and
Read Receipts are disabled), and never click on the OK button when the popup
says 'Your computer is insecure!!!!!!', or 'You're broadcasting an IP
address!!!!', or similar.

This becomes "on topic" when we as administrators consider the gullibility
of our users and their willingness to be lemmings in response to spam.  We
send out emails regularly to our users encouraging them to be aware of email
hoaxes, and I'm just waiting for someone to send a "the world will end if
you don't delete the Acrobat Distiller temp directory" message (because if
you didn't already know this, W2K requires the unwashed rabble (ahem ...
"users") to have elevated privileges on that directory).

I ramble ...

Regards,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, 26 October 2002 12:25 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT : humour, nigerian money scams



Remember your  standard response to these idiots should be as is as
follows...(I hate these scum, I get one a day at least)
*********
Dear UMMA GUMMA,
Thanks for your kind letter I am truly excited about your proposal and I
have put all of my information at a special internet link just for you. Be
certain that you have your speakers on for this site as I speak the
information so that you can verify my voice.

The site is:

 http://thethin.net/thanks.swf

For ease of our mutual future reference I will also
add this correspondence to a page at http://thethin.net/scam.cfm

Regards
JK

PS If you do not understand this please check out this very instructional
manual: http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/individual/pakin/idiot/chapter1.html



Now THATS HUMOR.
Regards,
Jim Kenzig
http://thethin.net


-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Ken Klika
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 4:59 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT : humour, nigerian money scams



Funny, but it is estimated that these scams are in the top 5 industries = in
Nigeria, at $100 million per year. Can you believe that about 1% of = the
people who receive them actually respond?=20

Details:
http://slate.msn.com/?id=3D2072851

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Columna, Melvin [mailto:ColumnaM@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 4:40 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT : humour, nigerian money scams



They do

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Theophilou [mailto:dino7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 4:24 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT : humour, nigerian money scams



Ok, but the bills have to look real.  :)

Dean


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