unwanted emails from pests.

[steve56]

i keep getting some guys etc sending me emails saying hello im dr so/so etc in nigeria can i transfer my money in your account as ........sort of thing ,how do they get hold of my email addy its weird

[mart]

Steve56, where have you been?
It's called Spam.
They get your email address by looking at all the websites with chat rooms on the internet and copying down all the email addresses they can find. Apparently they use peasant women in South America and pay them US$1 for every 10,000 email addresses. The women have to pay the fees for using internet cafes out of their own pockets and provide their own pen and paper for the lists.

Mart

[steve56]

what a liberty though

[Jonboy]

Hi Steve. These e-mails from Nigeria are scams to clean out your bank account see below for details.
In addition one scam, which I liked, was a hotel in Nigeria had various shops, including an Internet caf? on the premises. Now business people would use this when they stayed and send flowers to wife or girlfriend back home. Well after about three months their credit card accounts all got emptied. What had happened was the owners of the caf? had a programme, which recorded all the keystrokes and so obtained everyone who used a credit card details. This is unlikely to happen today but 5 years ago not so many people had Laptops or hotel rooms modems

Anybody on the Web has surely seen the pervasive "Nigerian letter," a well-known scam in which you're offered a cut of tens of millions of dollars if you help some Nigerian get the wad out of his country. It's hard to believe anybody can be duped by this come-on, but occasionally they are, according to the FBI.
It didn't take much to find traces of the newest scam on the Internet. One woman in mid-transaction involving a too-large cashier's check, ready to sell her car and ship it to Nigeria, inquired if it might be a scam. She got 56 warnings from victims or near-victims.
It's gotten prevalent enough that victims recently formed an online support group - Scam Victims United. Chances are, membership will grow.
In his e-mail to the Johnson Creek couple, Joshual Williams thanked Brent for returning the money.
"You are a great guy," he wrote. "I will really like to do more business with you in the future cos (sic) you are very honest."
Sellers, beware.

[Boo2]

mart wrote:

> The women have to pay the fees for using internet
> cafes out of their own pockets and provide their own pen and
> paper for the lists.

Surely they don't use pen and paper. It would be a copy & paste job, then forwarded to some anonymous e-mail address, or printed off. Why pen and paper?

[Boo2]

Jonboy wrote:

> In his e-mail to the Johnson Creek couple, Joshual Williams
> thanked Brent for returning the money.
> "You are a great guy," he wrote. "I will really like to do
> more business with you in the future cos (sic) you are very
> honest."
> Sellers, beware.

Sorry Jonboy, I'm not following your story . Who were the "Johnson Creek couple", "Joshual Williams" and "Brent"??

[mutanthalibut]

It's a bit like.....When I was young we were so poor that on Xmas day, after dinner we had a midget gem for pudding. We shared it between 8 of us and got 3 licks each if lucky.

[mutanthalibut]

Or, the time I was 11 and got my 1st Xmas present....A lump of coal. I got really attached to it and named him Dave, we really bonded and for nearly 2 weeks I remember being very happy. Then one day my Dad took him away from me and I had to watch him being burned alive.

[steve56]

hi jonboy,in other words they just wanna free hand out,beggin really.

[Deuce Bigolo]

My theory would be MI5 or 6 have an operative in the cafe which you frequent

Unbeknowns to yourself when you log into your email the operative has obviously taken a photo of the addy....high powered lenses...nothing is sacred any more

cheers
B....OZ