Gents & Ladies, (you know who you are... Either Paul's computer is infected or his email address is within another computer's address book. Seeing as it came to this reflector my guess is his computer is compromised for it to use his email to be sent to this reflector. Not necessarily though but it's a good bet the info within his address book and mailing procedures is known to others.
To wit: A review of the IP addreses the request used to get to me in Connecticut went in reverse as follows, from most recent and lastly to the original IP... To me: Sent from IP 69.16.226.196 (Lansing Michigan) To Lansing Michigan: P 206.190.37.27 (Sunnyvale, CA) To Sunnyvale, CA: IP 196.3.183.72 (Abuja Nigeria) It's one of the famous money making scams from Nigeria that you've likely heard so much about. Their government doesn't do squat to stop this, it flows too much money into their country. Gary KA1J > Please I need your assistance,I made an emergency trip to England and am > having a little problem. Please Assist me with Two thousand dollars > ($2,000.00) to enable me conclude my program here. I will pay you back as > soon as I return home. Send it via western union money transfer with this > info. > Receiver: Paul Gates > Location: West Norwood London SE27 9DW United Kingdom. > Remain blessed, > Pau. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html