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  • He bit into some Nigerian spam - to fight it

    03/13/2008 10:26:34 AM PDT · by SmithL · 15 replies · 589+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/13/8 | Deborah Gage
    Martin Lee knew all the reasons you shouldn't respond to spam e-mails. As a software engineer who studies how to block such messages, he'd warned against answering them himself. But he couldn't resist. Lee was struggling to figure out how to stop an especially persistent form of spam - the type that informs recipients they've won the lottery or are sought for a new job, which can masquerade as legitimate e-mails and evade spam filters. As Lee pored over the messages, he wondered who was sending them and who would be tempted to answer them. And he decided to find...
  • UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails (had claimed Reagan had diminished mental ability)

    03/02/2006 4:01:17 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 73 replies · 2,557+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | March 2, 2006 | William Lobdell,
    A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son. ...Louis Gottschalk, a neuroscientist, is the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UCI College of Medicine. He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that President Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980. He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to...
  • Islamic Terrorists Take Over Nigeria

    08/14/2005 9:11:52 AM PDT · by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 · 8 replies · 807+ views
    Mass Email Spam ^ | 8/14/05 | Hassan Mohammed
    "Hassan Mohammed" info@olympiasecfin.net Add to Address Book Subject: Last Wish Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 8:27:41 -0400 Dear Friend, As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is Hassan Mohammed a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer.. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live,according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone(not even myself)but my business....