Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 640.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Peter Burton <burto009@maroon.tc.umn.edu> (32)
Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposals-are the addresses
real?
[2] From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu> (1)
Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposals
[3] From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@oucs.ox.ac.uk> (3)
Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling &
THIS IS NOT SPAM
[4] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (8)
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: U.S. Secret Service is interested
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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:52:45 +0100
From: Peter Burton <burto009@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposals-are the addresses real?
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 637.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
>
>
> Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 06:47:01 +0100
> From: Bill Schipper <schipper@mun.ca>
> >IS NOT SPAM
>
>I get about half a dozen of these a month, mostly from "Nigerian
businessmen",
>occasionally from other African countries. About a year ago, my wife (a
>freelance writer) did some research on Internet scams and in the course
of her
>research interviewed a fraud specialist with the RCMP. The scam appears
>to be
>run in part from Nigeria, and has burnt some people in spectacular
ways. The
>RCMP has been conducting an investigatoin for some time now, and people who
>receive such "offers" are invited to send copies with full headers to the
RCMP
>Fraud Division, at info@phonebusters.com.
Dear Willard,
As a trick of the scam mischief makers seems to be to get us to indicate
that our own email addresses are being used by our sending an email to any
of the addresses they offer, can you confirm that Bill Schipper
<schipper@mun.ca> and RCMP Fraud Division <info@phonebusters.com> really
are the addresses they are represented as being?
Regards,
Peter Burton
[Allow me to reassure everyone that Bill Schipper is as he represents
himself to be, an academic at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. As
for the Mounties, see <http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams/nigerian.htm>. I
could not find their e-mail address, however. --WM]
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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:53:17 +0100
From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposals
Do the Mounties want these from other countries, or just from Canada?
Michael
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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:53:32 +0100
From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling & THIS
IS NOT SPAM
How's this for a paranoia inducer? I get weekly messages offering me mail
order doctorates and green cards for working in the U.S. I'm surprised the
penis extensions haven't found me yet...
(Dr) Nancy Weitz (ex-pat but still have a U.S. passport)
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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:54:13 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: U.S. Secret Service is interested
Dear Prof. Willard McCarty,
Regarding: 15.634 Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling & THIS IS NOT
SPAM (I just read your message on humanists)
Wrt to above: This is a Secret Service office specifically detailed to
investigate this particular scam, also known as the 4-1-9 scam. For more
information see <http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml>
Thank you!
Sincerely yours,
Arun Tripathi
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