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Larry, answer, not in our lifetime. There probably will always be that one in a million who will jump on the Nigerian band wagon and wash their future down the drain. IMO that is what they are betting on. You cannot trust anyone email message unless you are sure ,100% of its origin. What a shame.
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Dear exalted board members,
I represent the esxtate of the late Dr. Mfame Kwuma. This estate owns many many miles of prime fishing waters inthe United states and a huge collection of bamboo rods. I need your help in making them avialabe to the public. But I only need people I can trust to help me in this esteemable enddeavor.
I know I can trust you if you are a trusting person yourself. Please post your name, date of birth, social security number and bank account number here and I will contact you with further important and interesting details. don't bother, though, if you mustered out of the service after 1975, however, as your information is already on file.
With greatest esteem,
The Honaroary Oldfrat, dcm, esq, etc.
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At my company every piece of email that comes in is subjected to 2 spam scanners and 3 virus scanners. I have effectively eliminated spam and viruses from our company's email.
It pisses me off to no end that we are forced to spend thousands of dollars a year to protect ourselves from spammers and virus writers. But the alternative of not protecting ourselves from these threats would cost us far more.
A little side note on this. After we implemented our multi solution approach to spam and virtually eliminating it, the volume of spam that comes to our company has dropped from a high of approximately 70% of all email hitting our servers to about 40%. Eliminating spam also eliminate the unknowing responses to spam by our users. With out the conformation of a valid address being sent back to the spammers our email addresses are slowly disappearing from their lists.
[This message has been edited by Kerry Stratton (edited 24 May 2006).]
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I've posted this before, but my solutino to spam (based on a reco I first heard here) is a program called MailWasher.
I have my ISP's spam filter set at the lowest level, where it picks up truly obvious spam, but doesn't have any flase positives tht could cause me to miss e-mail I want.
MailWasher then checks my e-mail whle it is still on my ISP's server and shows me a report of the e-mails there. Ones from people I have previously identified as being friends are sorted to the top and shown in green. Other e-mail shows who sent it, the subject line, who it was sent to and will allow me to preview as much of each one as I need.
Those non-friend e-mails are already checked off for deletion. I simply scroll downthem quickly to see if there are any I don't want to delete, uncheck those, then hit a "process mail button".
MailWasher then deletes all of the spam without ever downloading it to my computer and then opens up my mail program so I can download the good e-mails.
With the amount of spam I get,this program is a lifesaver. I beleive the basic vbersion is still a free download, but I use the paid Pro version as I use it on multiple e-mail accounts.
Highly recommended!
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I guess one just has to stay informed.
Spam is one thing, phishing is another. Scams get actually a bit scary sometimes.
Back when the Nigerian 419 connection started scamming, ... I had some poor soul actually send TO ME a stamped self adressed (po Box) envelope, 'cause I convinced him that I need his assurance that it wasn't a scam, and that I wanted to be absolutely sure that the draft would get to the right hands http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif
I had promised to send back to him a bank draft for the money he needed to pay the lawyer to get his Uncle's money from the bank (ha !!)
Ah the wonderous things an idle mind can do when it's holed up for the winter North of 60 with a brand new Internet connection (back when we used Elm to read and write e-mail).
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Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
[url=http://flyanglersonline.com/travel/quebec06fishin/:22898]2006 FishIn Ste-Marguerite River[/url:22898]
[url=http://pages.videotron.com/fcch/:22898]Fishing the Ste-Marguerite[/url:22898]
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Kerry,
Good post! I've sometimes been tempted to send them a complimentary ..well..nevermind...*BG*. I'm glad I didn't, for the very reason you suggested.
At first I nearly fell for a PayPal notice. It was so "nearly" the same addy. Man, a boy could get hosed these days!
Thank you.
Jeremy.