[WikiEN-l] Tracking spam for fun and profit

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"Andrew Gray" <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f3fedb0d0901180808r2f6da699g2d5d4d557ebf7b25 at mail.gmail.com...
You know the thing, "Dear Respected Sir. I am the Minister for Trade of 
Nigeria, and I wish to embezzle a BILLION dollars AMERICAN..."

Money Laundering is a more applicable term. I hav seen job offers that do 
not spell out how much I stand to get. The only unifying characteristic of 
fraud in that vein is that it asks for more personal information to open 
phone channels, to begin with, plus it never orijinates from a likely 
domain. My ISP either drops e-mail from IP#s that mask their domain name or 
fills that information in. The crazy thing is that you could open a phone 
channel with me from looking at my website, so if someone asks for it in 
e-mail, then I know that the scammer does not know a thing about me. I get 
more spam on Thursday, when scammers can hope to keep their account open 
until Monday. I identify fraud with [phish] -- same category as notes from 
banks that are not signed or that I do not deal with.