[meteorite-list] Apologies

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:07:02 2004
Message-ID: <3DAF5B4A.8A9955DF_at_tkc.att.ne.jp>

Michael and list,
   Your local FBI office should be able to handle the matter and pass it off to
interpol which has a special unit for tracking and closing sender sites of these
obnoxious emails. Thanks. Dirk Ross....Tokyo

Walter Branch wrote:

> Hi Mike and List Members,
>
> >I am the widow of the former ruler of Timbuktoo and I >have
>
> This scam as been around since the day after Al Gore invented the internet
> (just kidding, about Gore that is). I used to receive these things via the
> postal service and I routinely used to turn them over to the investigations
> unit but like the Campo del Cielo that was lost enrout to Norway last
> December, I have yet to hear back from the USPS.
>
> >IS THERE A GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY TO >WHICH I CAN REPORT EACH
> >TURKEY THAT DOES THIS?
>
> Yes, but they are located in Timbuktoo :-)
>
> Seriously, there probably is but what good would it do. Your email address
> was harvested by an automated piece of code, placed in a database and
> matched to various versions of that letter, then sent to you. The process
> is completely automated - unless of course you send some money :-)
>
> Besides, you can't even get live telemarketers to stop calling, so I doubt
> anyone can stop these guys.
>
> -Walter
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Walter Branch, Ph.D.
> Branch Meteorites
> 322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B
> Savannah, GA 31405 USA
> www.branchmeteorites.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:46 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Apologies
>
> > Hi all,
> > Apologies for a non-meteorite post, BUT, I do think this is efecting
> > everyone....
> > I don't know about y'all, but I keep getting an INCREASING number of
> > solicitations from nit wits from other countries with a story along the
> > lines of:
> > " I am the widow of the former ruler of Timbuktoo and I have
> > 27 million dollars I have to get out of this country without being
> detected
> > by the terrible oppressors who killed my saintly hustband. I heard you are
> > an honest person, so, I want to send it all into your account and give you
> > 15% for the favor"
> > It always goes on and on.
> > This wasn't so bad two or three times a year, but it is now up to
> 5
> > or 6 times a week.
> > IS THERE A GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY TO WHICH I CAN REPORT EACH
> > TURKEY THAT DOES THIS?
> > If so, PLEASE tell me the email address to foreword these absurd
> > scam artists who pray on the truly lame brained.
> > Sorry for the non-meteorite post, but I bet everyone on this list
> > would LOVE the opportunity to do more than just hit "delete" when
> > this crapolla comes to us nearly every day.
> > Thanks, Michael
> >
> >
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Received on Thu 17 Oct 2002 08:52:27 PM PDT