From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 12 16: 2:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD47B37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6489A43EF1 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAC82B91C; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 01:02:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B48ED6A712B; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:02:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:02:27 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Larry Rosenman Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strictly Private. Message-ID: <20021012230227.GQ930@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Larry Rosenman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021012223843.2E2F743EA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3DA8A9F5.4050609@potentialtech.com> <1034463503.373.11.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1034463503.373.11.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:58:23PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 18:02, Bill Moran wrote: > > I have two questions: > > > > 1. If someone is stupid enough to fall for this, how can the criminal > > presenting the scam actually get away with it? > > 2. Who is stupid enough to fall for this scam? > > > > I get a couple of these a week. Each with a different story. I mean, > > someone must be sitting around writing these bogus stories! Is that > > person actually rolling in the cash from them? Why hasn't someone > > dragged them off to jail? > I have taken to reporting each and everyone that hits my mailbox to the > U.S. Secret Service <419.fcd@usss.treas.gov>. I don't know if it helps > or not, but I've never gotten a bounce. Or to abuse@[ISP which is responsible for the originator address]. But yeah, they don't do much about it I'm afraid since this one was coming from a2000.nl *again*. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message