 | | Re: 419 scammer in .robotics —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) What are 419s? "Nigerian Lockbox" is how I've always known that scam and its variants. This is not the first time this has happened. (you need to get out more, I guess...) It's due to the gateway with an external mailing list, which does not (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: 419 scammer in .robotics —Clark Stephens
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| | | | (...) 419 refers to the Nigerian Penal Code section for this kind of crime. The letters/emails are still getting responses decades after the scam was created. The U.S. Secret Service has a special webpage for information: (URL) there is a wider (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 419 scammer in .robotics —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) It does.. Thanks Clark! (your fount of amazingly obscure facts never ceases to amaze...) (21 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 419 scammer in .robotics —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) OK once I get hold of something, sometimes I worry it to pieces. While reading about a Mecha based combat game (1) (a link found from an orkut profile) I ran across another entry in this fellows blog pointing to a 419 story that's "out of this (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.build.mecha)
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