I don't know why you guys are so upset about this supposed "Nigerian Scam". I just got my first check for $500,000, partial payment for helping MS NGORO get her husband's money back! You are really missing out.....I plan to set up a high-stakes puzzle caching series like the Vancouver Canada bunch, as just one of my philanthropic activities with my $4 million (10%). Trisha "LIghtning" Prescott On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:16:11 -0700, Brian Cluff wrote: > > Gale wrote: > > Sorry that this is off topic, but is anyone else with a yahoo e-mail > getting larger amounts of spam that is the Nigerian scam? I've also > been getting some with odd foreign subject headings that I can't even > decipher. I haven't been opening them, but are these some sort of > virus attacks or just attempts to defraud me? Any ideas? I'm beginning > to be a bit spooked about it. > > I know this mailing list is now getting so much spam that I don't even > bother moderating the queue anymore. The vast majority is nigerian > banking scam stuff. > The really bad part is that someone managed to get all 4 e-mail > address > that are capable of sending to the mailing list and put them on their > list, so I get the same spam 4 times, every time. > > I really don't know why they keep sending me nigerian e-mail scam > messages a zillion time a day. Most of them start with something like > "You might be suprised to be recieveing this", but I don't know now > they > can expect ANY suprise what-so-ever, after all, I've been getting the > same message a minimum of 2 dozen times a day for over a year now. A > bigger suprise would be if they stopped coming. > > When I get some time, I will be adding spamassassin in front of the > mailing list, and then eventually it will be smart enough that I > should > have no problems at all moderating the list again. > > Brian Cluff > Team Snaptek > Azgeocaching.com > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com