[Gllug] Urgent

[Michael Sekamanya]

Don't u'all dare reply that message or be convinced of anything like that to
work. Those brothers are too smart once you give them room or any
information to your account. I know of people who've been victimised by this
scam. Read this http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105921,00.asp

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Winters" <john at linuxemporium.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Urgent


> On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 11:32, Gordon Joly wrote:
> > At 10:57 +0000 2002-11-30, John Winters wrote:
> > >On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:50, Sudhir Anand wrote:
> > >> Please do not respond to this message.  Ignore it altogether.
> > >>
> > >> On Friday 29 November 2002 22:52, Dr.Tom Tanga wrote:
> > >> > STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL.
> > >
> > >[Nigerian scam snipped]
> > >
> > >This is the one kind of UBE I do respond to and am thinking of setting
> > >up an auto-responder.  They're unique in that they do actually tend to
> > >have a real reply-to address.  If everyone responded, either with a
> > >simple, "No thanks" or something more direct, the senders would be
> > >thoroughly overwhelmed and it might discourage them.
> > >
> > >Presumably it should be possible to train Bogofilter to identify
> > >specifically these.
> > >
> > >John
> >
> > Yes; and then they would respond with....
>
> IME they don't.  If you say, "No thank you" you hear no more.
>
> > Fighting fire with fire seems like a bad idea, when the bounces and
> > counter-bounces might expand exponentially.
>
> But they aren't bounces.  They're query and response.
>
> > After all, it is all extra traffic? And who pays for that?
>
> Currently I pay to receive their junk.  I don't see why they shouldn't
> pay to get my response.
>
> Spammers rely on being able to send out vast amounts of crap (at someone
> else's expense).  The Nigerian scam spammers have a big hole in their
> business model - they need to give a real reply address.  By exploiting
> this hole it might be possible to dispose of them.
>
> John
>
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