I went one step further - I forwarded a copy of this to the treasury department
that monitors this activity. You can use 419.fcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you receive
an email (or letter, etc.) like this. This scam has been going on for nearly
20 years and is almost an industry in Nigeria where it is referred to as a 419
scan after the Nigerian code outlawing such activity. Unfortunately, a lot of
Nigerian government officials have been involved as well! If you get something
like this - just forward it to that email address with 'No financial loss' in
the subject.
Jim C.
Original Message:
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From: Ryan Medd ryanmedd@xxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:46:36 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] reply
That's one way to do it. Here's another.
This is the most important line of the "header" information
Received: from [63.109.245.171] by web14703.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 08 Jun
2001 09:01:17 PDT
From this, I can look up the service provider from the IP address
specified (63.109.245.171) at www.arin.net, and here's what I get:
UUNET Technologies, Inc. (NETBLK-UUNET63) UUNET63 63.64.0.0 - 63.127.255.255
New Skies Satellites N.V. (NETBLK-UU-63-109-240) UU-63-109-240
63.109.240.0 -
63.109.255.255
Tara Systems Limited (NETBLK-TARA63-109-245-168-29) TARA63-109-245-168-29
63.109.245.168 - 63.109.245.175
Clicking on the link for Tara Systems Limited
(NETBLK-TARA63-109-245-168-29) I get the following:
Tara Systems Limited (NETBLK-TARA63-109-245-168-29)
6 Broad Street
Lagos, Lagos
NG
Netname: TARA63-109-245-168-29
Netblock: 63.109.245.168 - 63.109.245.175
Coordinator:
Idris, Lanre (LI17-ARIN) lidris@xxxxxxxxxxx
234 1 260-0340
Record last updated on 31-Oct-2000.
Database last updated on 7-Jun-2001 22:56:00 EDT.
Now, we can forward the email (making sure to include the header
information) to Lanre Idris, and politely ask that they deal with the
spammer on their systems. Probably should do the same to the two upstream
providers as well (New Skies and UUNET). This won't eliminate all spam,
but will get rid of this one person!
Sorry, if I got too technical for this list, sometimes I can't help myself ;-)
Regards,
Ryan Medd
Vancouver, BC
At 09:48 AM 6/8/01, you wrote:
>I have started replying to these messages with an impressing threat to
>forward the mails to the national police section that deals with
>international crime, and Interpol. I hope this bears fruit some day
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