"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from (Steve Harris) contains these words:
In article ,
(martin) wrote:

MOST SPAM HAS FORGED HEADINGS.

Yes but an African fraud letter doesn't because it would fail totally if
it did (unless there's an alternative address in the body)

Bouncing mail back or even writing something rude wastes their time and
may take their mailbox over quota.

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.

DON'T MESS WITH THEM.


If everyone who got one of these messages replied to it, the fraudsters
would be unable to continue their scams, due to teh sheer volume of replies
they wouldnt be able to sort out the small proportion of 'real' replies from
gullible idiots. The well-meaning advice not to reply merely enables the
spammers to have the gullible sort themsleves out for the spammers, since
they are the only ones who will reply (plus the few who write amusing web
pages about them).

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