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OT email from africa
Just delete it. It will be from Nigeria and they are probably offering you a
few million $US I would imagine. Don't get into any phone conversations with them, I know someone who fell for it and more or less had to take out a mortgage to pay his 'phone bill. Needless to say, it was all a load of bolsheviks in the end. Andrew "anita" wrote in message s.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. Thanks -- anita Anita X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk |
OT email from africa
"anita" wrote in message s.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. Thanks -- anita Anita X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back without accepting them onto your computer. see www.mailwasher.net Peter. |
OT email from africa
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:25:24 -0000, "Snowman"
wrote: "anita" wrote in message ws.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. Thanks -- anita Anita X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back without accepting them onto your computer. see www.mailwasher.net Please don't bounce mail for the reason given frequently here and elsewhere. MOST SPAM HAS FORGED HEADINGS. By bouncing you are often upsetting an innocent person and wasting bandwidth. -- Martin |
OT email from africa
The message
from "Snowman" contains these words: If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back without accepting them onto your computer. see www.mailwasher.net It's a waste of time and bandwidth bouncing them. Only the very crudest spam has a valid return address. By bouncing them you are acting as a virtual virus. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
OT email from africa
In message , martin
writes On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:25:24 -0000, "Snowman" wrote: "anita" wrote in message ews.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. Thanks -- anita Anita X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back without accepting them onto your computer. see www.mailwasher.net Please don't bounce mail for the reason given frequently here and elsewhere. MOST SPAM HAS FORGED HEADINGS. By bouncing you are often upsetting an innocent person and wasting bandwidth. Yes you are right, but on the other hand I sometimes think that the only way to get ISPs to do something about all this crap is for everybody to start bouncing everything!!!! -- hugh Reply to address is valid at the time of posting |
OT email from africa
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:43:17 +0000, hugh ] wrote:
In message , martin writes On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:25:24 -0000, "Snowman" wrote: "anita" wrote in message news.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. Thanks -- anita Anita X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back without accepting them onto your computer. see www.mailwasher.net Please don't bounce mail for the reason given frequently here and elsewhere. MOST SPAM HAS FORGED HEADINGS. By bouncing you are often upsetting an innocent person and wasting bandwidth. Yes you are right, but on the other hand I sometimes think that the only way to get ISPs to do something about all this crap is for everybody to start bouncing everything!!!! Anybody bouncing anything in my direction gets an abuse post sent to their ISP. -- Martin |
OT email from africa
In message , martin
writes On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:43:17 +0000, hugh ] wrote: In message , martin writes On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:25:24 -0000, "Snowman" wrote: "anita" wrote in message anews.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. Thanks -- anita Anita X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back without accepting them onto your computer. see www.mailwasher.net Please don't bounce mail for the reason given frequently here and elsewhere. MOST SPAM HAS FORGED HEADINGS. By bouncing you are often upsetting an innocent person and wasting bandwidth. Yes you are right, but on the other hand I sometimes think that the only way to get ISPs to do something about all this crap is for everybody to start bouncing everything!!!! Anybody bouncing anything in my direction gets an abuse post sent to their ISP. Hmm. Do you actually own the domain name invalid.com? -- hugh Reply to address is valid at the time of posting |
OT email from africa
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:47:18 +0000, hugh ] wrote:
Anybody bouncing anything in my direction gets an abuse post sent to their ISP. Hmm. Do you actually own the domain name invalid.com? I was advised to switch to it 10 weeks ago, when I started getting reports that Swen messages were being sent in my name. Yesterday I got two reports from Italy saying that I had sent a Swen message. -- Martin |
OT email from africa
The message
from hugh ] contains these words: By bouncing you are often upsetting an innocent person and wasting bandwidth. Yes you are right, but on the other hand I sometimes think that the only way to get ISPs to do something about all this crap is for everybody to start bouncing everything!!!! I wish it worked that way. If something is bounced to a nonexistent address it goes straight into the bit-bucket. If something is bounced back to a forged address, it usually just gets dumped in a personal bit-bucket. The only hope is that MPs' mailboxen attract so much spam that they are moved to do something about it. Perish the thought that their e-mail addresses should constantly be posted on Usenet, of course....... -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
OT email from africa
The message
from martin contains these words: I was advised to switch to it 10 weeks ago, when I started getting reports that Swen messages were being sent in my name. Yesterday I got two reports from Italy saying that I had sent a Swen message. Because your address is in someone's addressbook. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
OT email from africa
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:42:32 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote: The message from martin contains these words: I was advised to switch to it 10 weeks ago, when I started getting reports that Swen messages were being sent in my name. Yesterday I got two reports from Italy saying that I had sent a Swen message. Because your address is in someone's addressbook. I had worked that out for myself :-) I am in a lot of Italian address books, because I worked with Italian companies for decades. -- Martin |
OT email from africa
Fraud victims trek to 'bank HQ' - and find a pharmacy
By Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent (Filed: 17/12/2003) The manager of the most northerly pharmacy in mainland Britain realised something was afoot when a couple from Italy became very upset to learn that he was not running an international bank. The distraught Italians were looking for bank staff who might deal with their financial problems. Instead, they found aisles labelled "men's toiletries" and "shampoos/ conditioners". They had fallen for an "advance fee" fraud in which victims are promised millions of pounds if they pay money up-front to help the "heir to an oil well fortune" apparently trapped in Nigeria. Some of those who paid the money and failed to receive the promised millions in return decided to make a pilgrimage to 9 Traill Street, Thurso, which they had been told was the headquarters of the "Continental Trust Bank". The bank claims to hold more than £30 billion for 70,000 clients around the world - which would make it Britain's 10th biggest bank. But even the most gullible travellers realised when they arrived at Sutherland's Pharmacy that they were not looking at the head office of an international bank. Andrew Paterson, the shop manager, said: "The couple from Italy seemed very upset. The police had told me that our address had been given out in this scam, so we directed them to the local police. Another couple came from America. "We got the impression that the people behind this scheme looked at a map of Britain and chose the most northerly town, on the assumption that very few people would go there to look for the bank." Arlen Hughes, from Wyoming, fell for the fraud after receiving an e-mail that assured him he would receive $41 million if he paid $57,000 (£32,000) as an initial fee. He said: "I received a phone call from Nigeria saying that I had inherited an oil company. They were very professional and I found a registered number in Scotland, so I believed they were legitimate." Det Supt Gordon Urquhart, of Highland Constabulary, said: "The address these people were given is a bona fide operating pharmacy. The telephone number for the alleged bank merely puts you on to another number in London." The Financial Services Authority said it had "no record whatsoever" of the Continental Trust Bank. The oil well fraud is one of a number of similar schemes by fraudsters operating in cyber-cafes in Nigerian cities. In most cases, people in Europe and the US are contacted and offered a share of non-existent riches in return for details of their bank accounts, which are then emptie -- Martin |
OT email from africa
"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ...
"anita" wrote in message s.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. I have a strong feeling that nothing will happen if you report it, so you might as well just reply to them that you have reported them, even if you don't do anything. Franz Heymann Duh! NEVER EVER REPLY TO SPAM. It gets you more spam. Never ever tell people WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE VIOLENT that you have reported them to the authorities. -- Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/ "At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog National Nature Reserve. |
OT email from africa
"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ...
"anita" wrote in message s.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. I have a strong feeling that nothing will happen if you report it, so you might as well just reply to them that you have reported them, even if you don't do anything. Franz Heymann Duh! NEVER EVER REPLY TO SPAM. It gets you more spam. Never ever tell people WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE VIOLENT that you have reported them to the authorities. -- Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/ "At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog National Nature Reserve. |
OT email from africa
"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ...
"anita" wrote in message s.com... Hi everyone Sorry for this OT question, but i don't know what to do. I have been sent an email from someone in africa asking for help and bank details, i know this is a con, but are we to report this to someone , i remember seeing something on tv and reports in news, and i can not remember if i should just delete it or report it. I have a strong feeling that nothing will happen if you report it, so you might as well just reply to them that you have reported them, even if you don't do anything. Franz Heymann Duh! NEVER EVER REPLY TO SPAM. It gets you more spam. Never ever tell people WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE VIOLENT that you have reported them to the authorities. -- Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/ "At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog National Nature Reserve. |
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