From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81a4a45d61d63aa1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-26 18:07:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!news0.de.colt.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp74259.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Confidential Date: 27 Oct 2002 01:07:32 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: References: <3DBB01F3.60304@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp74259.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.208.36) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1035680852 1154101 64.229.208.36 (16 [125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nntp+chvatal:comp.lang.ada" 3746) X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Emacs-Acronym: Emacs Makes All Computing Simple Microsoft: I'm not laughing anymore. X-Uboat-Death-Message: BOMBED BY ATOMIC BOMB. WEB PAGES. SINKING. U-663. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30165 Date: 2002-10-27T01:07:32+00:00 List-Id: Jim Rogers wrote: > This is a well documented scam. > > In the last month I have received many similar mailings claiming to > be from a Nigerian official. Save your money. Do not participate in this > rip off. I get several every /day/. The US Secret Service apparently has a group specializing in the Nigerian scams; there are apparently enough gullible people to make it a problem... Just tell them that if they wrote their banking software in Ada, the transfer wouldn't have been a problem :-). -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.mca@" "enworbbc")) http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/finances.html Subject: SETI@home Or perhaps a better subject title would be, "Watching paint dry, but geekier." -- Brian Menyuk