[Gllug] ANTHONY THABO

[Liad Bokovsky]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:27:50PM +0000 , Liad Bokovsky mentioned that:

I got these sort of e-mail as well. I actually played around with that
person for a while, asking questions about his life, his dad and bein
very sympatetic in general (he was from Zimbabwe, AFAIK).

At some point, the poor guy actually gave me a 'better' e-mail address
to get a hold of because he wasn't checking his yahoo.com aaccount to
often. That's when the fun actually began... (for obvious reasons...)

When sending a spam to abuse at someone-non-caring-isp.com doesn't work,
cooporate and attack the attacker - worked for me :-). I got his ISP to
block his account.

Liad

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:02:01PM +0000 , Alain Williams mentioned that:

>On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:55:30PM +0100, ANTHONY THABO wrote:
>>  
>>  
>>   
>> ATTN: SIR/MADAM,
>>                       STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
>> I am pleased to introduce myself  to you.My name is Mr. Anthony  Thabo  a native of South Africa and a senior employee of mines and natural resources department currently on a trainning course in Holland for few months.
>> I  am writing this letter to request your assistance in order to 
>> redeem an investment with the South African mining Corporation.The 
>
>There seems to be a lot of this at the moment. I thought that you might like to know
>what I do with this cr*p. Forward to:
>
>* new.scotland.yard at met.police.uk
>  They always send a nice & polite reply.
>
>* 419 at spring39.demon.co.uk
>  If they reply they ask me to send it to all sorts of people (like my local police).
>
>Has anyone got any other suggestions.
>
>NOTE: this is not spam in the usual sense, what they are trying to do is to get your bank account
>details - which they will promptly vacuum empty.
>
>-- 
>Alain Williams
>
>#include <std_disclaimer.h>
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