[H-GEN] Theres Still Hope!

[bob parker]

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:55, you wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>     Probably a little off topic for a linux mailing list, but it involves
> all of us(i'd imagine anyway) so I will continue:
>
> Recently a Customer of mine recieved a spam email in his Hotmail
> Inbox(generic "We have 4 Mill for you here, but we need your bank account
> details first" spam) and unfortunatly for him he believed it.  I first
> noticed this activity while scanning a document for him that contained his
> bank a/c details, I probably shouldn't have been nosy, but when I saw the
> scan I just had to investigate.  Straight away I knew it was bogus(even
> without believing the damning evidence on their email they had sent) when I
> went to their supposed homepage at www.accountant.com.
>
FWIW I drop all such stuff onto SpamCop - hope it does some good in the long 
run.


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