Why does this list get so many of these scam letters?
We're a pretty sophisticated audience, wrt internet scam's.
But I have to go to my bank now, I just got a letter from a new friend in Nigeria;
Who is offering me a great opportunity.
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From: Chase Alert info.bank (AT) alert161 (DOT) chase.com
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:19:11 -0600
To: misc (AT) openbsd (DOT) org
Subject: Verify Your Account Information:16186
Chase Bank
Chase Bank Notification
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Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:30:04PM -0600, Julesg wrote:
Why does this list get so many of these scam letters?

We're a pretty sophisticated audience, wrt internet scam's.

But I have to go to my bank now, I just got a letter from a new friend in Nigeria;
Who is offering me a great opportunity.

Because it's an easily found e-mail address, not moderated, and earlier
attempts at doing more restrictive filtering (i.e., blocking dynamic
IPs) didn't really work out due to quite a few people running their own
mailservers?

Plus, it's not well-known enough to make it into any 'don't spam this or
you'll end up in grave trouble' lists. Maybe if we started reporting
every spam that came through?

Joachim