I just received an Email from Togo, West Africa. It is a variation of the Email bank scam that has been going on for some time. A large sum of money, no rightful owner, provide us with a bank account #, some up front cash, and we will share millions with you. All other Emails I have received of this type (different countries but all from the continent of Africa) have been through my work address but this time it came through my USMS alias. Has anyone else received this type of scam through their @USMS.org alias?
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Not that particular scam, but I have received other spam though my usms.org alias.
Yes, since I have "enlisted" in the forums, I have been heavily spammed. And it seems that both my usms.org address and my "real" address are now on the spam hit list. It is quite annoying. I might suggest that our webmaster try to shove a filtering package into the database project somehow...I know I would be thankful! Or maybe we simply only allow relays from "known" or "trusted" domains (if that can even be figured out!).
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Not to drift too far off a USMS or swimming-related topic, but apparently people are still falling for this African e-mail scam; this weekend a story ran of a woman who just embezzeled $2 million from her law firm employer as part of this scam:
www.freep.com/.../checks21_20020921.htm
On the spam front, there are lots of good anti-spam resource sites online, including, e.g.,
spam.abuse.net/.../
But spam really is an intractable problem; once your address gets out there, you're hosed. Look forward to an education in how to make millions working from home, the activities of certain hot young coeds, and various penis enlargement products.
(One last link: for those who have become familiar with the regular spam topics, SatireWire's spam poetry contest is very funny:
. The poems are made entirely from phases out of spam e-mails.)
--Brad
