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Spain catches 87 419 scammers : Me Blog! — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:33:51 +0000

[...] visitors might have seen my previous entries about some 419 scams that I received in the post. For those who do not know what 419 means – it is a form of [...]

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Me Blog! » Blog Archive » Irish Lottery Sweepstakes Spam — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:26:07 +0000

[...] haven’t recieved a 419 in a while. Either by post or e-mail but one arrived in my inbox early this morning. Spamassassain had flagged it as spam and [...]

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Interesting Links October 06 to October 09 | James Galvin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:46:42 +0000

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By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:41:40 +0000

Indeed, I heard a joke similar to that before:

If you put all the criminals on an island together and came back 50 years later, what would they say?

Something like ‘G’day mate’!

Apologies to any Australians that mat be reading this!

By: K8

K8 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:38:53 +0000

If I was a Queen for a day, I’d put all these scammers on a remote island in shark infested waters with nothing but a few tins of anchovies and a Cliff Richard CD to live on. Pure hatred.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:55:31 +0000

Nah, that wouldn’t work. From what I’ve been able to find out about them they have been going since 1996 or so. They are a fully fledged bunch of scumbags.

They would spot a scam baiter a mile off.

By: Dankoozy

Dankoozy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:43:07 +0000

its just too tempting to take up the whole spambaiting thing again. any email address? tell em you sent them the 15 eur and that you heard nothing from them and annoy the shizzle out of em.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:42:01 +0000

I’m not sure how they get the addresses Grannymar,

I think that it is because I registered a few internet domain names a few years ago that had my contact information on them. But our cleaner doesn’t even have a computer and she got one identical to mine. So maybe they look up the register of electors too. At least most of us would be savvy enough to ignore them but there is always a few who get caught out because otherwise they wouldn’t do it.

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:33:38 +0000

How do they get your name & address?

I am not in the Telephone Directory and only on the copy of the Electoral Register used in the Polling Stations and not on the one available in Post Offices or Public Libraries. It saves me from all kinds of rubbish.