[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules spam.c,1.1.2.3,1.1.2.4

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:26:31PM -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> I thought I was th only one getting all these silly Nigerian scam spams.  I 
> figured maybe they saw my name and decided to test on me (though they might 
> more cleverly have figured that a fellow Nigerian would be wise to the game).

Actually, one of my colleagues informed me that this spam is in fact *very
old* (after I ROTFL'd rather loudly reading the Dilbert comic featuring the
Nigerian spam a mere week after getting the spam myself :) Scott (my
colleague, not Adams) remembers first getting it by fax, 15 years ago, and
again several years later. And not just one fax, but every single fax in the
company, and lots more outside of the company. Apparently the telephone
operator issued a warning to all customers not to respond to the fax.

Still-sound-advice-ly y'rs,

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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