[Gllug] Urgent

Michael Sekamanya michaelsekamanya at onetel.net.uk
Sat Nov 30 15:32:01 UTC 2002


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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