Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:50:34 -0400 From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU Message-ID: <3ee9ca710609200550o571066c0gbb058d6009657379@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0609192033m798005acl9ec73bdc700781b1@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060919195406.8D58C1BF48C@catbus.gts.cz> <20060919210137.GA5274@osiris.chen.org.nz> <45109A0A.7000107@sbcglobal.net> <45109FCA.4020808@adam.com.au> <d7195cff0609192033m798005acl9ec73bdc700781b1@mail.gmail.com>
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yup, if you have free time, it can be fun to mess with these guys, plus the more people mess with them, the less profit they make. Check out sites like www.thescambaiter.com. Lots of fun for free time. On 9/19/06, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/19/06, David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au> wrote: > > > > Hmmm... > > > > >> 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. > > > > I presume that they have ways and means of not being detected, though, > > or alternatively the place where they are turns a blind eye to such > > shenanigans? > > Nigeria, Benin, Ivory Coast. None of these countries > have extradition treaties with the United States (and > likely so with most other so-called civilized countries), > and it is somewhere around 50Musd into their wreched > economies per annum. > > Guess what their authorities are willing to do about it. > > On the other hand, you can be put in jail for trying to > cash a fraudulent money order, even if you whine that > you did not know it was fraudulent. > > -- > -- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream
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