[Gllug] Business Assistance

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jim Bailey wrote:

> > That's rather unfair. The state mentioned is often Nigeria, but
> > apparently many 419 scams are run from the Netherlands.
> >
> I didn't realise that though I figured that it wasn't likely that they
> originated in Nigeria.

I get a LOT of them. I check the IP of the host that sends them to me and 
the vast majority of them are nigerian IPs.

> Much more disturbing is some company I have never heard of spamming me
> on an address trying to temp me with sales speak and  with offers of SuSE
> Linux boxed sets.  Very little info on the company and no contact
> details other than email.  I tracked their details down through
> companies house but still couldn't get a telephone number.  I have
> called their local office of fair trading.  Though I am not sure if it
> is within their remit.
> 
> As far as I am concerned they aren't "Linux" and they aren't "community".

Name and shame.

Jason Clifford
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