Heidi wrote:
>John, excuse me for putting the question out on the CRIME list. Some people
>did not respond the way you did and were very helpful. Some of us out here
>are learning and do not have the experience you do. I am sorry for
>"clogging" the CRIME list. I had also already acknowledged that I got the
>message it was a hoax and thanked everyone for their responses and hoped
>that would stop any further responses. Heidi
>
Again, we need a charter. I can't tell whether Heidi's question about
the Nigerian scam is topical or not:
* not topical: it is spam, not security. It's been going around for
years, so it is not news.
* topical: it is clearly criminal, and it involves computers. CRIME
is about computers and law enforcement. Doesn't that bring it in
scope?
Crispin
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John McHugh [mailto:jmchugh@private]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:08 AM
>To: mcps@private
>Subject: Scam
>
>
>Heidi
>
>There is no reason to clog the crime list with this discussion. Were
>you to follow through, at some point you would be asked to put
>substantial assets of your own in that account "as a show of good
>faith" after which they would disappear.
>
>In some variations, you might be asked to come to Senegal, bringing
>the good faith monies, or something similar. This is a varient of an
>old con-artist scam often played against the elderly in which the con
>man "finds" a stack of money and offers to split it with the victim
>who is passing by. The victim puts up some money of his/her own to
>show good faith and is left holding a pile of currency sized newspaper
>cuttings, possibly with a bill on the top and bottom.
>
>They work when the greed of the victim gets the better of common sense.
>It helps if the victim is gullible.
>
>John McHugh
>
>
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Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
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