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
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"anita" wrote in message
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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
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Peter.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:25:24 -0000, "Snowman"
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"anita" wrote in message
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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
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MOST SPAM HAS FORGED HEADINGS.

By bouncing you are often upsetting an innocent person and wasting
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If you don't already have it, get Mailwasher and bounce such mails back
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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.

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Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
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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
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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!!!!
--
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Reply to address is valid at the time of posting

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
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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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

"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.

"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.

"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.