[Gllug] Business Assistance

[Jim Bailey]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:28:31PM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> 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.
>
http://www.thelinuxpartnership.co.uk/index.htm

I have nothing against what they are trying to do but the methods and
feel of there website 'smells' wrong to me.

Peace Jim

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