From: Bradley Alexander <storm_at_tux.org>
Date: 28 Nov 2002 22:40:56 -0500

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 15:37, Brent Geery wrote:
> Does *anyone* fall for this garbage? I guess someone must.

Enough people do that the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission have set up special email addresses for folks to send the
scam messages...

A couple of weeks ago, one of the local radio personalities got a scam
and actually had people call in, and one guy had a buddy that took
something like $18,000 over there...He lost it, of course.

-- 
--Brad
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Bradley M. Alexander                |
Debian Developer, Security Engineer |   storm [at] tux.org
Debian/GNU Linux Developer          |   storm [at] debian.org
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Received on 2002-11-29