Am I just being unlucky, or are others seeing a big surge in 419 spam? Not just from Nigeria (blocked), but from freemail servers all over the place -- Europe, Asia, the US, South America etc. 419 spam accounts for the vast majority of UCE/UBE that I receive now. -- Juha Saarinen
On Friday, Feb 21, 2003, at 07:19 Asia/Taipei, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Am I just being unlucky, or are others seeing a big surge in 419 spam?
Not just from Nigeria (blocked), but from freemail servers all over the place -- Europe, Asia, the US, South America etc.
419 spam accounts for the vast majority of UCE/UBE that I receive now.
router#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. router(config)#$mbi, son of the late rebel leader Jonas Savimbi of Angola % Ambiguous command: "I am Mr. Taofeek Savimbi, son of the late rebel leader Jonas Savimbi of Angola" router(config)#who was killed on the 22nd of February 2002. ^ % Invalid input detected at '^' marker. router(config)#
At 12:19 PM +1300 21/2/03, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Am I just being unlucky, or are others seeing a big surge in 419 spam?
Someone appears to be working on a filter. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29410.html -- Michael Newbery IP Architect TelstraClear Limited
On Friday, 21 February 2003 12:19 p.m. +1200 [NZST],
Juha Saarinen
Am I just being unlucky, or are others seeing a big surge in 419 spam?
Not just from Nigeria (blocked), but from freemail servers all over the place -- Europe, Asia, the US, South America etc.
419 spam accounts for the vast majority of UCE/UBE that I receive now.
In a related story... Wired News: Nigerian Slain Over E-Mail Scam http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57760,00.html -- "Saddam Hussein"? They should call him "So Damn Insane"! -Krusty the Klown, "Insane Clown Poppy" (#BABF17) _______________________________________________________ © 2002 Hugh Lilly. PGP ID: 0x064D2C0D e-mail: hl(a)orcon.net.nz w: http://hugh.orcon.net.nz PGP ACSII Key File: http://hugh.orcon.net.nz/hl.asc (or .txt) Fingerprint: 08C3 AC15 A73B F784 9DF1 6DF9 DD0E 8BB0 064D 2C0D =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ --- The above malformed .sig delimiter is the fault of AVG. Complain to custsupport(a)grisoft.com if you don't like it. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date: 18/02/2003
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Hugh Lilly
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Joe Abley
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Juha Saarinen
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Michael Newbery