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Re: have you seen such a spam?
From: KUIJPERS Jimmy <jimmy.kuijpers () swift com>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:51:18 +0200
There is this really funny website which also shows how certain spammers, or rather scammers, are foiled in their own game. Check out www.419eater.com for some good laughs on this topic and go ahead and play the "game" aswell. Regards, Jimmy
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:30, Nico Golde wrote:hi, today the debian-mentors list received such a spam message: Hello: I'd like to request for someone to sponsor the following unofficial packages I have: snes9express (1.39-beta) - a GUI frontend for SNES9x (as far as I know this is still an orphaned package); and visualboy advance (a gameboy/gameboy color/gameboy advance emulator for Linux). The said packages can be obtained in this apt source location: anything that u want to send,send it by this below. P.O box 1103 agodi Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. At the time i read it first i haven't noticed that this was a spam. It is a spam bot which greps trhough mailing list archives, greps some pieces of the text in a mailing list message and inserts his spam text. Here's the original posting: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200302/msg00287.html have you ever seen such a spam? what i don't understand is, how somebody can make money with such a spam mail? regards nico p.s. for all german people here on the list. there is a very good funny story about baiting the nigeria connection in the actual c't magzine.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: signature.asc signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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Current thread:
- have you seen such a spam? Nico Golde (Apr 08)
- Re: have you seen such a spam? Joao Gouveia (Apr 08)
- Re: have you seen such a spam? KUIJPERS Jimmy (Apr 08)
- Re: have you seen such a spam? Nico Golde (Apr 09)
- Re: have you seen such a spam? KUIJPERS Jimmy (Apr 08)
- Re: have you seen such a spam? Joao Gouveia (Apr 08)