SpamAnti.net in April 2010

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Mark Twain Vs. the spammer

Dear Sir,

Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Source: Roumazeilles.net

419 scams is a booming industry

As you certainly know because you are reading SpamAnti, Advanced-Fee Frauds (also known as 419 scams or Nigerian scams) are frauds where a guy tells you that he has a large sum of fraudulent money to white-wash. He is asking for the help of a victim and will keep requesting fake fees or phony taxes in order to free the hook money.

This is a real business that exploded with Internet and we learn that in 2009, victims sent a whooping $9.3 billion to scammers.

Dang! This is a lot of money that people send willingly to unknown people in foreign countries in the hope of getting a part of the stolen heritage of an African prince, an Arab businessman or Thailand official.

Source: Ars Technica

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