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Re: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
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Date: 
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:52:07 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
> > PATRICK TAMA wrote:
> > 
> > > Mentioning this mail to anyone may put me in a big mess and cause me to lose the money.
> > 
> > Hehehe!  So that's why he posted to a newsgroup with hundreds of readers from all around
> > the world?!  :-)
> > 
> > I strongly recommend that he invests the whole $12,800,000 into Jar-Jar Binks Minifigs.
> 
> That's certainly a plan!
> 
> This is the second such spam in as many days I think.
> 
> I'd like to suggest that the link between LUGNET and the external mailing list
> be reconsidered, or that the maintainers of the external list not allow
> unvalidated people to post to it.

The Nigerian scam ring was broken up in Amsterdam last month:

http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,62124,00.html

-Rob.



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  Re: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
 
(...) all. And of course, there's other kinds of spam as well. I don't think the mailing list link should be severed, but it'd be nice if the list had tighter policies. (23 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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