From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cbaker@bbbscentralohio.org Subject: Re: Hoax.. Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:00:34 -0400 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <3EA6AA92.15646.15BBD6C@localhost> References: <1051117353.25368.12.camel@alpha.newkirk.us> Reply-To: cbaker@bbbscentralohio.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <20030423201033.3e567f63.arnt@c2i.net> Content-description: Mail message body Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Hopefully, most people here already knew that this was a hoax. It obviously wasn't confidential. I have been forwarding all such spams to Spamcop. I actually saw a decrease for a while. Go to . What is the Secret Service address? And does that accomplish anything? Chris On 23 Apr 2003 at 9:07, Kevin Smith wrote: > > >>UNION TOGOLAISE DE BANQUE LOME TOGO, > >>LOME-TOGO. > >>STRICTLY AND CONFIDENTIAL, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > The Hint this this is a hoax..(I mean to a mailing list?) > > > On 23 Apr 2003 at 20:10, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On 23 Apr 2003 13:02:33 -0400, > Joel Newkirk wrote in message > <1051117353.25368.12.camel@alpha.newkirk.us>: > > > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:26, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:07:28 -0400, > > > "Kevin Smith" wrote in message > > > : > > > > > > > > > > > >>UNION TOGOLAISE DE BANQUE LOME TOGO, > > > > >>LOME-TOGO. > > > > >>STRICTLY AND CONFIDENTIAL, > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > The Hint this this is a hoax..(I mean to a mailing list?) > > > > > > ..this went to and __thru__ the netfilter list ????????? > > > I thought is was only my ~/.procmailrc having a hickup. > > > > Someone harvested the archives of this mailinglist for email > > addresses, and is sending various forms of these "Nigerian 419 scam" > > ..the Africans should make the Nigerians ban this idiocy, it hurts > everybodys business, I mean filtering on "business" and all African > country names, as most people end up doing, will deny _all_ African > businesses, _any_ fair business online, because of this Nigerian "419" > criminal idiocy and vice versa. > > ..face it, with Nigerian "419", who needs racism? ;-) > > > emails. I use netfilter@newkirk.us for ONLY this mailinglist and > > associated conversations, and I get about one of these every 2-3 > > weeks now at that address. > > > > They're mailing direct to the email addresses found in the archive. > > ..ah. Gentlemen, mod your ~/.procmailrc to only accept posts > from netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org. Next step would be > GPG signatures and autoforward anything that fails, to the Law. > > > I forward them to the Secret Service, who collect these in the US. ======================================== Chris Baker -- technical specialist 614-839-2447x108 cbaker@bbbscentralohio.org Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Central Ohio www.bbbscentralohio.org Opinions expressed in this e-mail are solely my own. ======================================== Register now for BBBS largest and most enjoyable fund raiser of the year--Bowl for Kids' Sake! Visit http://bfks.kintera.org/centralohio OR call 614-839-2447. It's not about bowling. It's about having fun and raising money for the kids!