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Re:curious email
From: Philippe Biondi <biondi () cartel-securite fr>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:30:53 +0200 (CEST)
Look at this pretty interesting/frightening story : http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP01159FS.html << This is the complete story about Zone-H faking to fall in one of the infamous Nigerian 419 advanced fees frauds. The story begins with the first mail and it ends with the last telephone call with the fraudsters in which we agreed upon details of our trip to Nigeria, where a limo sent by the gangsters would wait to kidnap us upon our arrival at the Lagos Airport. The story includes all the fake certificates produced by the fraudsters. All the details below are provided by Zone-H. >> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Tom Koehler wrote:
I see quite a lot of stuff like that coming at our mail system. I believe its called the nigera connection. The various storys have gained cult status in germany (http://www.nigeria-connection.de sorry page in german). The last one I remember is from last week supposedly coming from swizterland trying to get at some money sombody owned how died in the Lockerby crash (quite tastless that). Those are all schemes to get at your money hth tomI received a rather strange email today [08.15.03] at 12:44AM. I'll let the email speak for itself: http://www.osidan.com/tmp/curiosemail.htmlIf anyone has any information regarding a scandal revolving around an email of this sort, please let me know. I believe I read an article or perhaps it was a past FD thread that discussed some sort of scandal resembling this scenario. I've not responded to this fellow, nor do I intend to, as the email surely seems to be a fake. Firstly, this person managed to track my email down but did not address me formally? He is a lawyer, so he says, and as such, he certainly should have used my name. Also, the email header seems somewhat strange. It's addressed to himself from himself. The only place the email address to which he was directing the email [my email address] was found was in the top-most Received information clause, where I have exchanged that particular email address with "my@email.address". Any information would be much appreciated.
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