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(Jaques d'Alltrades) wrote:

And if you're posting it back through your ISP they can do a 'whois?'
and you may well find an armed yardie on your doorstep.

A whois on most people's ISP will show that they are (say) a BT customer
which hardly gets them to your doorstep.

And done with a bit of knowhow, can turn up name, address etc.

Violence perpetrated by African
scam/spammers is confined to those who actually travel to meet them and
even then it is very rare.

Many who are enticed to meet their contacts (esp. in Nigeria) are kidnapped.

Mind how you cross the road on the way to the Garden Centre :-)

Too true. It's a four mile walk.

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