[meteorite-list] eBay Sellers list, eBay name change

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <3F0B1F91.4010201_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, John and the list,

the million dollar-mails are mostly from Nigeria and some
another African-countries. The ordinary letters of this kind
have long been known as "Nigerian-letters". In last years they
have started to use also e-mails. You can get a mail from the
widow of Mobutu Sese Seko or so on, and they told, they
have several millions USD:s they need to get safe from the
country.

They are sending these to addresses automatically monitored,
I have several e-mail accounts and have recived the same mail
in several mailboxes during the same day.

If you contact these people, next theyīll do, is ask some money
to get the large money transferred to your account. These are
all pure criminal acts and belong to trash.

In fact, the only way to avoid spam is just change your e-mail
several times / year. Once you have given your e-mail to a
commercial-site, writen to a news-group or so, itīs only a question
of time, when you are starting to get spam. Filter-programs may
be helpfull, but they donīt solve the problem.

Sure you can have one or more e-mail accounts you use only in
your privat messages and so you can keep it without spam. But
the truth is, when your e-mail address exists in a www-site of
any kind, it means automatic monitoring of it and after that spam.
Also spammers sell / trade the addresses, so when you get one,
you can wait for more.

One way to avoid spamming is just to add something to your e-mail
address, which should be removed, when to reply, like;

- real e-mail; pekka.savolainen_at_dlc.fi

- if you want to avoid automatic monitoring, you can write;
pekka.savolainen(nospam)_at_dlc.fi

and ask the reciver remove word "nospam"

This doesnīt help much, because you have to use your real e-mail in
many cases but is one way to limit the spam, when the using of this
kind of method is possible.

take care,

pekka

John Gwilliam wrote:

> List,
> About six months ago, I was getting as much spam as I was getting mail
> from this list. I changed my ISP and started off with a different
> email address and had remarkable results. For the first three months,
> I got almost no spam. Then the numbers started increasing. Maybe the
> solution is to change your email address a couple of times a year.
> This creates all sorts of problems and some of the folks that you only
> email once a year or so might not get the news of your email change.
> One thing I did notice with my new email address though was a LOT of
> emails from people with foreign sounding names wanting my help to
> transfer several million dollars out of their failing country into the
> USA. I feel quite impressed that they picked me because they heard,
> from a business associate, that I was a reputable and trustworthy
> person...;-)
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
>
> At 08:28 AM 7/8/03 -0400, magellon wrote:
>
>> All,
>> Thanks to those who replied to me off line.
>> The problem is greater than I expected and goes beyond the List and
>> ebay.
>> I checked with some AOL users who do
>> not even subscribe to any type of list or ebay and they
>> have had increasing spam coming directly to their email address starting
>> about 45 days ago...
>> Sorry for being OT.
>> Best,
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> > magellon wrote:
>> >
>> > Mark,
>> > I too have been getting a tremendous amount of spam since June.
>> > How about others?
>> > Best,
>> > Ken
>> >
>> > http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/magellon/
>> >
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Received on Tue 08 Jul 2003 03:46:25 PM PDT