Re: Hoax..

[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?

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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