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Re: 419 scammer in .robotics
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 16 May 2004 12:54:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
> > Todd-
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> > Someone's been posting 419s via email in the .robotics
> > newsgroup. I don't know why, or how, except that I know
> > its subscription works differently than the rest of LUGNET.
> > But I thought I'd flag it for you.
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> > Anyways, that's a first for me, 419 scam come-ons on LUGNET.
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> What are 419s?
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:
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
and there is a wider private-sector site, The 419 Coalition, dedicated to
stopping the scam:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
Hope that helps,
Clark
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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