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Subject:	Republic of Congo Scam - hit me and other cox.net Lego Fans
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:13:00 GMT
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Well, we all get spam. I don't get too much, but I get some! Today I got three from the same spammer. The spam was sent to cox.net Lego fans. I know bhamilto1 (Brad Hamilton), copyright (myself) socalray (I know I have seen this guy here!) and legodan44 (obviously a lego guy) all are lego fans and were each one of the 20 who got hit. Since I would know of no other place my email would be listed with other Lego fans, I smell a fish. So my suspicion suggests that the spider or guy hit Lugnet to get our info. Just thought I'd let you know!

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		Re: Republic of Congo Scam - hit me and other cox.net Lego Fans
(...) nod - spiders can harvest LUGNET for email addresses. There's really nothing anyone can do about it, either. For one thing, if we hide the email addresses in the web interface, we will lose an important functionallity - the ability to send (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Republic of Congo Scam - hit me and other cox.net Lego Fans
(...) All spam is bad. But some is worse than others. I find these "heartrending stories" of widows/sisters/illegitimate sons of strongmen with mysterious strongboxes of cash or secret bank accounts to be more amusing than annoying. A new twist for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Republic of Congo Scam - hit me and other cox.net Lego Fans
(...) I got six, same text word by word in all of them. I also get a lot of "you won a trip to Puerto Rico!" e-mails, presumably with the same kind of origin. (...) Thanks - at least I know I'm not alone :-/ Pedro (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Republic of Congo Scam - hit me and other cox.net Lego Fans
Yeah, I got hit by that crap too. It was good for a laugh, at least, though I'm seriously ticked at the dickweed who set it up. Spam bad. Me no like. Take care, Soren (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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