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Paul Gates, KD3JF

I need your help

Please I need your assistance,I made an emergency trip to England and am having a little problem. Please Assist me with Two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) to enable me conclude my program here. I will pay you back as soon as I return home. Send it via western union money transfer with this info.
Receiver: Paul Gates
Location: West Norwood London SE27 9DW United Kingdom.
Remain blessed,
Pau.

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WE0H

Re: I need your help...Spammer

This is similar to a message I got yesterday. It came from some non-US
email address. It was someone saying they wanted to buy my K2 and to
tell them how much & where to send the funds.

I just deleted the message.

--
Mike
WE0H
K2 #6698
SKCC #5446

Paul Gates wrote:
> Please I need your assistance,I made an emergency trip to England and am having a little problem. Please Assist me with Two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) to enable me conclude my program here. I will pay you back as soon as I return home. Send it via western union money transfer with this info.
> Receiver: Paul Gates
> Location: West Norwood London SE27 9DW United Kingdom.
> Remain blessed,
> Pau.

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M0XDF

Re: I need your help...Spammer

On the basis that only approved emails get onto the reflector, this
person must be known and presumably reading the list. No callsign I
notice, but spam doesn't normally include such details as knowing
about a K2.

The postcode relates directly to
Barclays Bank plc
543 Norwood Road
LONDON
SE27 9DW

but that is in Lambeth, not West Norwood (according to GE), but they
aren’t that far apart.

It's Spam Mike, but not as we know it!
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
--
Hofstadter's Law: The time and effort required to complete a project are
always more than you expect, even when you take into account
Hofstadter's
Law.

On 8 Apr 2009, at 09:39, Mike-WE0H wrote:

> This is similar to a message I got yesterday. It came from some non-US
> email address. It was someone saying they wanted to buy my K2 and to
> tell them how much & where to send the funds.
>
> I just deleted the message.
>
> --
> Mike
> WE0H
> K2 #6698
> SKCC #5446
>
> Paul Gates wrote:
>> Please I need your assistance,I made an emergency trip to England
>> and am having a little problem. Please Assist me with Two thousand
>> dollars ($2,000.00) to enable me conclude my program here. I will
>> pay you back as soon as I return home. Send it via western union
>> money transfer with this info.
>> Receiver: Paul Gates
>> Location: West Norwood London SE27 9DW United Kingdom.
>> Remain blessed,
>> Pau.

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Don Wilhelm-4

Re: I need your help...Spammer

Paul is a valid member of this reflector. But notice the "undisclosed
recipients".
I would believe his computer has picked up a virus that is using his
email contact list.

73,
Don W3FPR

David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:

> On the basis that only approved emails get onto the reflector, this
> person must be known and presumably reading the list. No callsign I
> notice, but spam doesn't normally include such details as knowing
> about a K2.
>
> The postcode relates directly to
> Barclays Bank plc
> 543 Norwood Road
> LONDON
> SE27 9DW
>
> but that is in Lambeth, not West Norwood (according to GE), but they
> aren’t that far apart.
>
> It's Spam Mike, but not as we know it!
> 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.45/2045 - Release Date: 04/07/09 06:41:00
>
>

Thom LaCosta-2

Re: I need your help...Spammer

At 06:53 AM 04/08/09, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>Paul is a valid member of this reflector. But notice the "undisclosed
>recipients".
>I would believe his computer has picked up a virus that is using his
>email contact list.

Of course someone could contact him and ask if he sent it.

If he did, then it would end the speculation on the list
If he did not, then he might realize his system was infected
or
We could keep on posting and wondering and conjuring reasons.

73,
Thom k3hrn
Sometimes the simplest approach is the one that works

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dave.wilburn

Re: I need your help...Spammer

There is a very bad bug out now, one of many that preys specifically
on systems that are not patched. I think we are seeing the result of
people not keeping their system patched, or using older OS's that are
no longer patched by MS. Bad MS, no cookie!

How often have you heard someone say, "I stopped letting Windows
update my machine, it keeps messing it up".

Conflicter was already out in 4 strains, and as it becomes more
successful, it will be re-written to do more, thus it will likely mutate.

Dave Wilburn
NM4M

Thom LaCosta wrote:

> At 06:53 AM 04/08/09, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>> Paul is a valid member of this reflector. But notice the "undisclosed
>> recipients".
>> I would believe his computer has picked up a virus that is using his
>> email contact list.
>
> Of course someone could contact him and ask if he sent it.
>
> If he did, then it would end the speculation on the list
> If he did not, then he might realize his system was infected
> or
> We could keep on posting and wondering and conjuring reasons.
>
> 73,
> Thom k3hrn
> Sometimes the simplest approach is the one that works
>
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Matt Palmer-4

Re: I need your help...Spammer

conficker doesnt do anything yet, it has the potential to be a spambot
net, but it hasnt done anything except phone home so far.

Matt
W8ESE
Former KD8DAO
http://blog.MattIsKichigai.com

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:46 AM, David Wilburn <[hidden email]> wrote:

> There is a very bad bug out now, one of many that preys specifically
> on systems that are not patched. I think we are seeing the result of
> people not keeping their system patched, or using older OS's that are
> no longer patched by MS. Bad MS, no cookie!
>
> How often have you heard someone say, "I stopped letting Windows
> update my machine, it keeps messing it up".
>
> Conflicter was already out in 4 strains, and as it becomes more
> successful, it will be re-written to do more, thus it will likely mutate.
>
> Dave Wilburn
> NM4M
>
> Thom LaCosta wrote:
>> At 06:53 AM 04/08/09, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>>> Paul is a valid member of this reflector. But notice the "undisclosed
>>> recipients".
>>> I would believe his computer has picked up a virus that is using his
>>> email contact list.
>>
>> Of course someone could contact him and ask if he sent it.
>>
>> If he did, then it would end the speculation on the list
>> If he did not, then he might realize his system was infected
>> or
>> We could keep on posting and wondering and conjuring reasons.
>>
>> 73,
>> Thom k3hrn
>> Sometimes the simplest approach is the one that works
>>
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Jon Kåre Hellan

Re: I need your help...Spammer

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Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Paul is a valid member of this reflector. But notice the "undisclosed
> recipients".
> I would believe his computer has picked up a virus that is using his
> email contact list.
>
The "sender" in the message header says *nothing* about who the message
really came from.
It isn't even right to say that it's easily forged. The sender literally
puts whatever he/she wants
there. I could have put "[hidden email]" if I wanted.

Jon

> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
>
>> On the basis that only approved emails get onto the reflector, this
>> person must be known and presumably reading the list. No callsign I
>> notice, but spam doesn't normally include such details as knowing
>> about a K2.
>>
>> The postcode relates directly to
>> Barclays Bank plc
>> 543 Norwood Road
>> LONDON
>> SE27 9DW
>>
>> but that is in Lambeth, not West Norwood (according to GE), but they
>> aren’t that far apart.
>>
>> It's Spam Mike, but not as we know it!
>> 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>> Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.45/2045 - Release Date: 04/07/09 06:41:00
>>
>>
>>
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AC7AC

Re: I need your help...Spammer

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Gary Smith

Re: I need your help

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Gents & Ladies, (you know who you are...

Either Paul's computer is infected or his email address is within
another computer's address book. Seeing as it came to this reflector
my guess is his computer is compromised for it to use his email to be
sent to this reflector. Not necessarily though but it's a good bet
the info within his address book and mailing procedures is known to
others.

To wit: A review of the IP addreses the request used to get to me in
Connecticut went in reverse as follows, from most recent and lastly
to the original IP...

To me: Sent from IP 69.16.226.196 (Lansing Michigan)
To Lansing Michigan: P 206.190.37.27 (Sunnyvale, CA)
To Sunnyvale, CA: IP 196.3.183.72 (Abuja Nigeria)

It's one of the famous money making scams from Nigeria that you've
likely heard so much about. Their government doesn't do squat to stop
this, it flows too much money into their country.

Gary
KA1J

> Please I need your assistance,I made an emergency trip to England and am having a little problem. Please Assist me with Two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) to enable me conclude my program here. I will pay you back as soon as I return home. Send it via western union money transfer with this info.
> Receiver: Paul Gates
> Location: West Norwood London SE27 9DW United Kingdom.
> Remain blessed,
> Pau.
>
>
>
>
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Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ

Re: I need your help [END of Thread]

Administrator

Let's end this thread.

If I see subsequent SPAM posts from this address I'll unsub it.

Please - When spam like this hits the list, please do -not- post to the
list to discuss it. That only multiplies the SPAM impact an order of
magnitude, raising the list noise level. Especially when you copy the
SPAM text in your email.

Feel free to email me when you think I may have missed it. (I usually
get 10-30 emails from members every time this happens.. ;-)

73, Eric WA6HHQ
Elecraft List Moderator

Gary Smith wrote:
> Gents & Ladies, (you know who you are...
>
> Either Paul's computer is infected or his email address is within
> another computer's address book.
>
>
_..._
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