December 18, 2003

Spam

Posted by Brian

Did anyone else get the Nigerian Spam email from “John Adams” of the “Senate Committee on Banks and Currency”? I thought at first it would be moderately amusing, perhaps suggesting I get involved with something obviously fraudulent like purportedly buying the Midwest for pennies per hectare, but it turned out to just be a regular fraud letter with the grammatical mistakes fixed. I haven’t been following these letters for a while (thanks Thunderbird spam filter!) but it might be fun to see if they evolve a little.

Posted on December 18, 2003 04:16 AM UTC
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Actually the Nigerian spam began about 10 years ago as a mailed letter in an official envelope. A friend of mine received it that way.

Posted by Torben Sangild · December 20, 2003 04:17 PM
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This discussion has been closed. Thanks to everyone who contributed.