Hi folks,
A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud.
This is what he says in broken english - "I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million to your account. This fund belongs to our decease costumer who died along with his Family in air crash. Contacts me for more details."
Thanks, Josh.
josh donovan wrote:
Hi folks,
A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud.
This is what he says in broken english - "I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million to your account. This fund belongs to our decease costumer who died along with his Family in air crash. Contacts me for more details."
Thanks, Josh.
Now if it were $40 million I might be interested but I'm not getting out of bed for less!
Thanks for the heads up - some yummy spam fodder for my baysian rules :D
Ned
josh donovan wrote:
Hi folks,
A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud.
This is what he says in broken english - "I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million to your account. This fund belongs to our decease costumer who died along with his Family in air crash. Contacts me for more details."
Not the only spammer sending SPAM to my new email address for this mailing list. Gmail caught this one awhile ago:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
The way things are going, I'd rather have the €'s, preferably in the 50s of millions....
(Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah - waaaaaaah!)
mhr {-;
Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.
Anne
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:16 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list
On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.
No, I meant somebody actually calling it "Great British Pounds" instead of pounds sterling or quids. It was a referral to the mentioned bad English in the original mail. 8-) In fact the first thing I came to think about was huge like 1m in diameter coins and bed sheet-sized notes. ;-)
On Friday 05 September 2008 13:24:52 Sorin Srbu wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:16 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list
On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.
No, I meant somebody actually calling it "Great British Pounds" instead of pounds sterling or quids. It was a referral to the mentioned bad English in the original mail. 8-) In fact the first thing I came to think about was huge like 1m in diameter coins and bed sheet-sized notes. ;-)
Still, it was, and is, a correct phrase :-)
Anne
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-). Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.
No, I meant somebody actually calling it "Great British Pounds" instead of pounds sterling or quids. It was a referral to the mentioned bad English in the original mail. 8-) In fact the first thing I came to think about was huge like 1m in diameter coins and bed sheet-sized notes. ;-)
Still, it was, and is, a correct phrase :-)
Ok, ok, I give up trying to explain what I meant... I'll shut up now for a while. ;-)
Sorin@Gmail wrote / napísal(a):
Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
Sorin, before try to be funny maybe it is very wise to check the situation:
http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Romeo Ninov Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:24 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
Sorin, before try to be funny maybe it is very wise to check the situation:
http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling
I did. Just forgot to paste in the wiki-link. To fast fingers. 8-) Does anybody actually ever use the formal long name?
Sorin Srbu wrote / napísal(a):
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Romeo Ninov Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:24 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list
You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
"Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling... ;-)
Sorin, before try to be funny maybe it is very wise to check the situation:
http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling
I did. Just forgot to paste in the wiki-link. To fast fingers. 8-) Does anybody actually ever use the formal long name?
According to my personal experience not so often, but at the end that's official form, ISO standard like two letters counthry ISO codes RO, BG, GB, etc....
On Friday 05 September 2008 13:42:35 Romeo Ninov wrote:
I did. Just forgot to paste in the wiki-link. To fast fingers. 8-) Does anybody actually ever use the formal long name?
According to my personal experience not so often, but at the end that's official form, ISO standard like two letters counthry ISO codes RO, BG, GB, etc....
Yes, it is still used on some official forms.
Anne
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