C.
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 05:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am happy to report that after getting a few about a month ago I haven't
had any more virus bearing messages from 'Microsoft'. But I do get at least
one invitation to enlarge my genitalia or engorge them each day. And once or
twice a week invitations to apply for loans. Most of the spammers use forged
email headers. But over the last six months I've managed to have three
accounts closed for spamming.
Two of the more persistent spam-mails advertise anti-spamming software. This
is the height of bloody cheek as far as I'm concerned. However, the
Nigerians seems to be much quieter these days. Mr Sese Seko didn't get back
to me (July) after I asked him to send me a token 'Goodwill' payment of $10
000 before I would be prepared to help him get his $90 million out of
Nigeria, or wherever. I used to get one of these a week starting with
letters and faxes in the early 1990s and graduating to email when it became
available.
Last year I sent one Nigerian on a wild goose chase to an hotel by the
airport to meet my 'uncle' who was visiting Lagos on business. The idiot
went there and knocked on the door of the room I had given him in my email
and was apprehended by hotel security after he made a fuss when he didn't
find General Adolphus Clarke (my 'Uncle'). Unfortunately all they did was
chuck him out of the hotel. I got an indignant email from his mother (the
'wife' of an ex-president of Nigeria) who had two trunks full of money in a
depot in Amsterdam that we were supposed to pick up for her and deposit in a
bank of our choice. She even sent pictures of the trunks of money - quite
convincing too. Con artists are very easy to con.
Don
