[Mimedefang] [OT] Spam that MIMEDefang will never be able to catch
Kevin A. McGrail
KMcGrail at PCCC.com
Fri Oct 7 15:44:58 EDT 2011
On 10/7/2011 3:11 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:05:01 -0400
> "Kevin A. McGrail"<KMcGrail at pccc.com> wrote:
>
>> Same here! I have received many of these going back to the early
>> 90's when I co-founded my firm. They are/were often addressed to
>> just President, in fact.
> Wow... I'm gob-smacked. I can believe that dumb people will do this
> via email because spamming is essentially free, but I never thought
> there were enough suckers around to make it pay using a convential
> mail campaign.
The scam has roots back to the 18th century Spanish Prisoner schemes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner
Here Ye for Ye Olde Spamme,
KAM
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