From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 23:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869F237B403 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 23:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-34-245.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.34.245]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA28457; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:25:42 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <03e601c13765$d7f29b30$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark the Shiny Badger!" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "fallous" , "Jonathan Hilgeman" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" References: <004c01c13765$26f99540$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: PRIVATE MESSAGE Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:24:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" > Unfortunately these spams are becoming more and more common because > unbelievably some idiots have actually fallen for them. The scam is > simple, the scammer claims that they have money tied up in some > foreign country and they need your bank account number to free it up. > They always pick some country that has a fucked up banking system. > Then as soon as they get your bank account number they transfer all > your funds to their account and close it. It's impossible to get the > money back because the scammers bribe the police in the country that > the money is transferred to and the international banks are basically > powerless to do anything about it. It's really hard to believe anyone would fall for something like this.....I guess there's no accounting for the things people will do to get money for nothing. Regards, Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message