From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 01:30:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D2016A40F for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:30:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAFD443D4C for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:30:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 11408 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2006 01:30:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=HdOQo5Yc9SWjPfhdSqHJQCPvejvz/Y9cSAiV6wjEqzFqu+IclyA/Sdve/vAjSJU9q6EFXZdD3Zi4DOXfFcrrAvQbxMFeL4I2n0zkBHVkt07lOn2qansJ4O1/sLdu+LjfbwjfaY5AZw6eiv5ps+otM3e5fZTHZO9yyd68DghMmKE= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.3?) (wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net@70.142.248.62 with plain) by smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2006 01:30:43 -0000 Message-ID: <45109A0A.7000107@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:31:54 -0500 From: Robert C Wittig User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen References: <20060919195406.8D58C1BF48C@catbus.gts.cz> <20060919210137.GA5274@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060919210137.GA5274@osiris.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:30:45 -0000 Jonathan Chen wrote: > How exactly does this spam-scam work? Does the spammer require a > proof-o-faith `donation' to initiate further communication or > something? Nigeria 4-1-9 They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad guy the the money, and then your bank discovers the counterfeit cheque, and debits your account for the bad transaction. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/