[lug] not just spam, but illegal scam

Ian Hall-Beyer manuka at nerdherd.net
Sun Jun 17 22:51:24 MDT 2001


On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> I got an email today form someone wanting to transfer $20million into my
> bank account for the Nigerian government (or something like this).  This
> isn't just spam, but an outright scam in the offing.  Anyone know who I
> could forward this message to?  Isn't there some FBI group that handles
> such scams now?

denver at fbi.gov - they have an office in the Denver FO that handles
cybercrime.

-Ian

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