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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To Quote Neil S: select * from users where clue > 0; Empy set It may seem old-news here, but if less people fall for this stupid stunt, we might all get less spam. (We can hope). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3494072.stm In the past 12 months, 15 cases have come to light in the City of London, a financial district measuring just one square mile. These advance-fee frauds are also known as "419 scams", named after the section of the West African country's criminal code that prohibits fraud. Across the capital, police have investigated over 100 similar crimes. But, because of their complex, international web of deceit, the criminals are hard to track down and, in most cases, victims will never see their money again. But by the time police get involved, victims have usually lost, not gained, more than £250,000, much borrowed from friends, families and even employees. The best thing, say the police, is not to reply to any e-mails offering money for virtually nothing. This could lead not only to a loss of funds, but a criminal prosecution for money laundering if you suspect the money might be the result of criminal activities. "If an offer looks too good to be true then it generally is," said DCI Moore. ############# That's £2.5million gone to Nigerian 419 scammers from the UK in one year. (And that's only the losses that have been declared to police!) Obviously nobody is learning. I don't see a money laundering charge being a likely deterrent - those who know already realise that there IS no money (criminal or not) - those who don't know won't let the possibility of a charge dent their greed. (History repeats itself - it has to, nobody listens.) - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQ7O2iAEJSii8s+MRAhAQAJ9XDzapleZ0AYUtLltkOGYBCyDwXACfS2NG cufLyIskK0TT4HbkxzwrtNc= =XRVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.