Hoax..

Hoax..

[Kevin Smith]

>>UNION TOGOLAISE DE BANQUE LOME TOGO,
>>LOME-TOGO.
>>STRICTLY AND CONFIDENTIAL,
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Hint this this is a hoax..(I mean to a mailing list?)

Re: Hoax..

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:07:28 -0400, 
"Kevin Smith" <ksmith@perfht.com> wrote in message 
<NGBBLGFEALDADHNDAAFFCEIKDJAA.ksmith@perfht.com>:

> 
> >>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.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

Re: Hoax..

[Joel Newkirk]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:26, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:07:28 -0400, 
> "Kevin Smith" <ksmith@perfht.com> wrote in message 
> <NGBBLGFEALDADHNDAAFFCEIKDJAA.ksmith@perfht.com>:
> 
> > 
> > >>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" 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.  I
forward them to the Secret Service, who collect these in the US.

My latest was two days ago:

> From: SAMSON GUEI <samsonguei@redffmail.com>
> To: netfilter@newkirk.us
> Subject: CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT
> Date: 22 Apr 2003 12:06:48 +0200
> 
> FROM:MR,Samson Guei. 
>  
> DEAR SIR, ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO. 
>  
> I AM MR,Samson GUEI, THE SON OF LATE GENERAL ROBERT GUEI 
> EX-MILITARY HEAD OF STATE OF IVORY COAST, WHO WAS MURDERED ALONG 
> WITH THE INTERIOR MINISTER ON THE 19th OF SEPTEMBER 2002

j

Re: Hoax..

[Jesper Lund]

> My latest was two days ago:
>
>> From: SAMSON GUEI <samsonguei@redffmail.com>
>> To: netfilter@newkirk.us
>> Subject: CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT
>> Date: 22 Apr 2003 12:06:48 +0200
>>
>> FROM:MR,Samson Guei.
>>
>> DEAR SIR, ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO.
>>
>> I AM MR,Samson GUEI, THE SON OF LATE GENERAL ROBERT GUEI
>> EX-MILITARY HEAD OF STATE OF IVORY COAST, WHO WAS MURDERED ALONG
>> WITH THE INTERIOR MINISTER ON THE 19th OF SEPTEMBER 2002

I am pretty sure that my spamfilter throwes those mail away at my setup.

//Jesper

Re: Hoax..

[Sascha Reissner]

From: "Jesper Lund" <jesper@ballbreaker.dk>

> > My latest was two days ago:
> >
> >> From: SAMSON GUEI <samsonguei@redffmail.com>
> >> To: netfilter@newkirk.us
> >> Subject: CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT
> >> Date: 22 Apr 2003 12:06:48 +0200
> >>
> >> FROM:MR,Samson Guei.
> >>
> >> DEAR SIR, ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO.
> >>
> >> I AM MR,Samson GUEI, THE SON OF LATE GENERAL ROBERT GUEI
> >> EX-MILITARY HEAD OF STATE OF IVORY COAST, WHO WAS MURDERED ALONG
> >> WITH THE INTERIOR MINISTER ON THE 19th OF SEPTEMBER 2002
> 
> I am pretty sure that my spamfilter throwes those mail away at my setup.
> 
> //Jesper
> 
> 

Yepp ;) X_Spam_Flag: Yes ...

Re: Hoax..

[Arnt Karlsen]

On 23 Apr 2003 13:02:33 -0400, 
Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us> 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" <ksmith@perfht.com> wrote in message 
> > <NGBBLGFEALDADHNDAAFFCEIKDJAA.ksmith@perfht.com>:
> > 
> > > 
> > > >>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.

..automagically?  ;-)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

Re: Hoax..

[cbaker]

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 
<www.spamcop.net>.

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 <netfilter@newkirk.us> 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" <ksmith@perfht.com> wrote in message 
> > > <NGBBLGFEALDADHNDAAFFCEIKDJAA.ksmith@perfht.com>:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > >>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.

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Re: Hoax..

[Sascha Reissner]

From: <cbaker@bbbscentralohio.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
> <www.spamcop.net>.
>
> What is the Secret Service address? And does that accomplish
> anything?
>

if you get bored.. someone seemed bored and collected all those nigeria
emails at http://www.nigeria-connection.de/inhalt_a_z.html

totaly offtopic.. but.. that thread already is ;)

Re: Hoax..

[Joel Newkirk]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:00, cbaker@bbbscentralohio.org wrote:
> 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 
> <www.spamcop.net>.
> 
> What is the Secret Service address? And does that accomplish 
> anything?
> 
> Chris

Remaining off-topic just a moment longer, the US-only address for this is: (forward full email, including headers if possible)
419.fcd@usss.treas.gov with subject "419 no loss" (Presuming you haven't lost money to this scam... :^)

They collect them to try to correlate and trace activity, and supposedly to crack down on US email addresses in use for this.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled netfilter discussions... ;^)

j

Re: Hoax..

[Dan Egli]

Joel Newkirk wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:26, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:07:28 -0400, 
>>"Kevin Smith" <ksmith@perfht.com> wrote in message 
>><NGBBLGFEALDADHNDAAFFCEIKDJAA.ksmith@perfht.com>:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>>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" 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.  I
>forward them to the Secret Service, who collect these in the US.
>
>My latest was two days ago:
>
>  
>
>>From: SAMSON GUEI <samsonguei@redffmail.com>
>>To: netfilter@newkirk.us
>>Subject: CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT
>>Date: 22 Apr 2003 12:06:48 +0200
>>
>>FROM:MR,Samson Guei. 
>> 
>>DEAR SIR, ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO. 
>> 
>>I AM MR,Samson GUEI, THE SON OF LATE GENERAL ROBERT GUEI 
>>EX-MILITARY HEAD OF STATE OF IVORY COAST, WHO WAS MURDERED ALONG 
>>WITH THE INTERIOR MINISTER ON THE 19th OF SEPTEMBER 2002
>>    
>>
>
>j
>
>
>
>  
>
I was wondering why I never saw this :> I use a whitelist system (TMDA) 
to block this type of junk. It was probably sent to me,  and my tmda 
caught it and I deleted it out of hand w/o seeing more than the header. :>

--- Dan