At 14:33 23/03/2009 -0400, Gene Young wrote:
This is a known scam. Someone spoofs an email, requests monetary
assistance be sent to a particular location and disappears.
How right you are!
A relevant header reads: X-Originating-IP: [196.3.183.73]. This
address appears to be located in Nigeria. It's blacklisted by
spamcop.net, abuseat.org, sorbs.net, and spamhaus.org - amongst others.
Previous messages from the spoofed address suggest that its owner is
one time zone east of GMT (UTC) and that he keeps daylight saving
time in the northern hemisphere's summer. Nigeria is one zone east
of UTC but - being tropical - does not exercise daylight saving. So
his domicile is unlikely to be Nigeria (but probably central
Europe). Oh, and if (as he once told) he uses the English (UK)
version of OpenOffice, he would probably use British rather than US
spelling: thus "travelling" instead of "traveling" and possibly even
"programme" instead of "program".
As you suggest, it's not our friend who has sent this message. but
instead a scammer.
Brian "Sherlock" Barker
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