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NEWS: Nigerian Bank Spammer Arested!

Postby Mithrandir » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:38 pm

YES!

They finally caught one of these "I'm a banker in Nigeria" spammers! I don't think he's gonna get out of jail any time soon.

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http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031106.wnigescam1106/BNStory/International/
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Postby EireWolf » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:42 pm

Yeah!!! It's about time... Good for that woman to have the guts to con the con!

I've gotten about a bajillion of those stupid emails in my Yahoo account... maybe they'll stop now?
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Postby Straylight » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:48 pm

Cool! I've had a few of those emails too
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Postby MillyFan » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:53 pm

YES!!!!! I'm so happy to see this! I've gotten this spam at both my e-mail accounts and via regular mail, and someone was spamming the board I mod with it. Ugh.

I'm happy to see that one of these scammers is in jail where he belongs. Hopefully, they don't let him have access to the computers. :)
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Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:55 pm

Man... It's about time... So many people have lost money on this jerk and it's about time this person was arrested...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs Watch this movie　なう。 It's legal, free... And it's more than its premise. It's not saying Fast Food is good food. Just watch it.
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Postby Mithrandir » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:09 pm

Well, we suspected it, anyway.

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Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:12 pm

I'm sure there are hundreds of copycats for them to catch, though... I mean, there will always be people to capitalize on stupidity... I actually got spammed by a 14 year old kid in the "EBAY account" scam... I noticed his e-mail was on aol, so I reported him to them... and to ebay... And I talked to him on AIM and he said he did it because he liked laughing at people who were stupid enough to fall for it... I told him he was going to be arrested for his "fun game" but he just told me off, so I copied the convo and sent it to AOL...

Don't ever trust e-mail for something like that... Ebay isn't gonna lose your account, and even if they did you wouldn't find out by getting an e-mail... IF they lost your account, how would they still have your e-mail? That makes no sense... But a lot of people who aren't computer litereate don't think about those things and fall for the traps... I wish I could tell everyone don't give your credit card, telephone number, SSN, address, Name, or any other info to a website you linked to through e-mail...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs Watch this movie　なう。 It's legal, free... And it's more than its premise. It's not saying Fast Food is good food. Just watch it.
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Postby Technomancer » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:22 pm

I always wondered who it was.
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Postby Mithrandir » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:26 pm

Technomancer wrote:I always wondered who it was.


And he was from CANADA! What does that tell us about Canadians, eh?

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Postby MasterDias » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:32 pm

Well, that's one less scam but there are a ton of them more out there.
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Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:36 pm

was he an "eh" canadian or a "hey" canadian?
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Postby Stephen » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:51 pm

Wow...that makes me happy. I was so sick of those emails..my parents get them a lot...I think Trogdor needs to visit him...snicker
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Postby EireWolf » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:58 pm

Yes! Trogdor the Burninator strikes again! :lol:
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