Mark T. Johnson wrote: > A friend of mine got a suspicious e-mail which she forwarded to me. A > quick search lead me to the conclusion that this is > an old scam. Of course my advice to her was to report it to the ISP's > abuse mailbox. These guys appear to have been > moving around from ISP to ISP. Anyone seen this before? Any better > advice? > > Here is part of the e-mail she got (with her email address removed): I got a swarm of spam from word-of-mouth a couple of months ago. Then they abruptly stopped. I could never quite figure out whether it was a pure spam play, or if it was a dumb-ass dot.com business that let users do queries on some e-mail address and try to build a network similar to friendster.com. I don't actually care that much, as I treated it all as spam and fed all the posts to spamcop.net. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ Chief Scientist, Immunix http://immunix.com http://www.immunix.com/shop/
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