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Comment from Heide Briggs on 2008-10-19

2008-10-19T19:14:30Z

Just received a PHISHING E-mail form a hotmail subscriber. See copy below:

Hello My Good Friend,

Greeting from Dr. Sandy Bangura who contacted you long ago, i'm happy to inform you that I have succeeded in moving those funds out with a new helper from Australia, whom based on agreement received %30 of the entire money for his financial involvement and efforts. I have since embarked on an Electronic Company projects with my share of the money.

Meanwhile, I did appreciate your efforts and attempts to help move the funds even though we couldn't realize it together. Notwithstanding, I appreciates the facts that you are a true friend, I kept for your compensation bank draft valued at £1,450,000.00GBP. Feel free to contact my account keeper, Mike Denis via e-mail: mikedenis105@hotmail.com, +229 93479668 with the following informations, he will forward the draft to you.

Your Full Name: ............................
Your Home Address:......................
Your Phone Number: .....................
Your Cell Number: .....................
Your Occupation: ........................
Your Age: .............................
Sex :....................................
Your Country: .........................

Please accept it in good faith. Let me know when you get it for us to share the joy.I'm busy here with the investment projects, I had forwardedinstruction to him concerning your bank draft, So he will send the amount to
you upon request.

I remain your friend,
Dr. Sandy Bangura---------------------------------

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Please advise,
Heide Briggs

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Comment from Lou Gascon on 2007-06-18

2007-06-18T18:18:33Z

Thanx Leo and thank you Mr Newman, but may I say to all you guys who read good old Leo - not to forget you email husbandry...
Keeping a clean house is what it's all about...
Do not buy from or through spammers...
Send the spammers mail (usually unkown to you with an odd subject title) to your ISP's spam box, and they will prevent it being sent out to anyone else...
Watch your email and who you give/send it too...!
but, I think above all, do not reply or send on those damn emails that appear to come from friends warning you about a virus, like "Invitation" for example and the Olympic torch or those other silly presentations with lovely scenes and warbling birds etc...
These are sent out originally by the spammers and are tracked by them to harvest email addresses...
So there you are receiving a mail that someone thinks you should get, with 20 or more email addresses on from your mate, and a further 20 or more email addresses from their previous mate and so-on...
God, the spammers luv you...
Nope! Straight into the bin and tell your friend kindly not to send'em any more...
And if a few more thousand people do that then the spammers source goes right out of the window...
Ha! out of the windows, ha! it's the way I tell 'em...!
anyway, you know what I mean - please don't send them on...

Lou

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Comment from C. Newman on 2007-06-05

2007-06-05T15:50:06Z

Leo, this issue will never go away because the majority of users simply will not protect themselves properly. I open anything and everything at home and I don't get spam or viruses. They are blocked. Period. Am I luck? No! Does it take a little effort to run and maintain 2 or 3 programs to achieve this? Yep! But I don't spend any of my time whining and grieving over spam and viruses. At work where the fine IT department doesn't share my ethic we have lots of spam. The people who are waiting for "someone" to fix the ills of the world have a really long wait.

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Comment from Dave on 2007-06-04

2007-06-05T05:42:43Z

Here is some credibility as to why spamming and phishing works so well, check out this item on eweek.com with the title "Hundreds Click on 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2132447,00.asp#talkback

O'boy

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Comment from Elaine on 2007-06-03

2007-06-04T02:42:52Z

I am frustrated by this too. I also find that somehow these spammers are getting all of my sub-email accounts. I had 162 messages the other day to a sub account I don't even give out. How do they get all my sub accounts? Do you know? Txs

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Comment from George Arauz on 2007-06-03

2007-06-03T16:45:57Z

They even have spamming in online video games now. In World Of Warcraft there is a spam message every 10 minutes asking you to buy stuff. ON A VIDEO GAME. Its getting out of hand

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Comment from HR on 2007-06-01

2007-06-02T02:34:15Z

Great article. Just the subject that has been on my mind latley.
HR

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