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Re: curious email


From: Kenneth Loafman <kenneth () loafman com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:17:06 -0500

Hmmm, spammer must be a better lawyer than you thought.  When I go to
the page I get:

    [ this page has been removed ]

and that's it.

...Ken


Anders Bjarby wrote:
 > Very common scam, google for "nigeria letter" and you'll notice that
 > you are not alone. :)
 >
 > /Anders
 >
 > fredagen den 15 augusti 2003 kl 13.11 skrev Tom Koehler:
 >
 >> I see quite a lot of stuff like that coming at
 >> our mail system. I believe its called the nigera
 >> connection. The various storys have gained cult status
 >> in germany (http://www.nigeria-connection.de sorry page in
 >> german). The last one I remember is from last week supposedly
 >> coming from swizterland trying to get at some money sombody
 >> owned how died in the Lockerby crash (quite tastless that).
 >> Those are all schemes to get at your money
 >> hth
 >> tom
 >>
 >>> I received a rather strange email today [08.15.03] at 12:44AM. I'll
 >>> let the email speak for itself:
 >>> http://www.osidan.com/tmp/curiosemail.html
 >>
 >>
 >>> If anyone has any information regarding a scandal revolving around an
 >>> email of this sort, please let me know. I believe I read an article or
 >>> perhaps it was a past FD thread that discussed some sort of scandal
 >>> resembling this scenario. I've not responded to this fellow, nor do I
 >>> intend to, as the email surely seems to be a fake. Firstly, this
 >>> person managed to track my email down but did not address me formally?
 >>> He is a lawyer, so he says, and as such, he certainly should have used
 >>> my name. Also, the email header seems somewhat strange. It's addressed
 >>> to himself from himself. The only place the email address to which he
 >>> was directing the email [my email address] was found was in the
 >>> top-most Received information clause, where I have exchanged that
 >>> particular email address with "my@email.address". Any information
 >>> would be much appreciated.
 >>
 >>
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