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All I see are foreign ASCII characters at the bottom of the message. They were probably typed on a foreign keyboard.

If you want me to analyze the message, forward it as an attachment to me through the forum email system. Or, copy the entire source code and paste it into a PM or email it to me.

Stan; That has all the signs of a new twist to an old Nigerian Scam. If you don't mind, would you please send that email to me, Forwarded as an attachment ? I want to trace the sender and need the hidden headers, which are only available if an email is forwarded as an attachment. All other types of ...

I have recently seen reports about sellers on the SGF getting contacted by scammers by telephone, as well as by email. This happens when the seller lists his phone number, or types out his email address, in the ad. Normally the SGF software protects your confidential contact information from non-mem...

See the spammers are still hard at it. The post i put on here in Instruments For Sale has gotten two hits, both from spammers. Do you mean "scammers" trying to fool you into accepting an overpayment by cashiers' check, with a refund of the balance to their "shipper," or by Weste...

I am in contact with Lisa and will handle this matter. She is a victim not a purpetrator, of Nigerian fraudsters.

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Bobby D. Hunter
Security for SGF
Hunting down Slimeball Game
Reporting member of SpamCop

What isn't visible in Gene's scam is the link code for the button that would have been embedded in the scam. Clicking on the button to login to your ebay account would take the victim to a look-alike phishing website. When the victim logs in to investigate his ebay username and password will be owne...

While I am not concerned with eBay scams (forward them to spoof@ebay.com), there is a place to forward scams that are directly related to your activities on the SGF. If you are a seller, or past seller, or offer services for a fee on the SGF and you receive an email that is suspicious, or is an obvi...

I appreciate that some of you have been forwarding messages to me that come from Nigerian scammers, but some of you are only sending the message body, not the entire original incoming source code. I need the entire original to do that voodoo that I do so well. There are instructions above the messag...

Lately the bad boys from Nigeria have been busy scamming our members, scraping email addresses from the SGF Posts of items for sale. Some folks have been sending me the message bodies, in hopes that I can block that scammer. What they don't realize is that I need the complete original email message ...

Tell you what Jim, just grab the headers and paste them into a text file and send it to me once a week (separated by dashed lines). I'll parse the headers for the source IPs and check them against our blocklist, adding any new ones to the list. Thanks in advance. ------------------ Bobby D. Hunter S...

Jim, I don't want them all. I am only interested in the most recent ones, and they should be connected with your activities on the SGF somehow (I am looking for new ISPs that scammers are using against the SGF). If they aren't connected with the SGF just send the most recent scam message (as an atta...

Hey guys, if you still have the originals of those scams would you please forward them to me AS ATTACHMENTS? If you can't forward as an attachment please grab the entire source code and paste it into an email and send it hither, with all haste in your dispatch. If you need a refresher on displaying ...

<SMALL>Are you interested in receiving copies of ALL our scam mails, or only those that appear somehow to be related to the Forum membership (if we could ever tell)?</SMALL> I really only care about SGF related scam emails, but sometimes SGF members receive scam emails at home or work because the o...

Don; If you receive any suspicious offers to pay in an unorthodox method I would appreciate it if you would forward them to me as attachments , for anaylsis. I will let you know if the offer is legit or a scam. If it is a scam I will try to block his access to the SGF. ------------------ Bobby D. Hu...

Nigerian scammers often use a religious ploy to fool their victims into compliance. They will say or type anything that they think will soften their intended Mark, whom they refer to as a Mugu (translates as something like "Big Fool"). The one thing that remains constant in these scams is ...

George; If you still have that email please forward to me as an attachment , as soon as possible. If you cannot send it as an attachment, open your email options and set them to display the full headers, then copy the entire message, headers and message body, and paste it into a new email and send i...

<SMALL>But, unfortunately, if the spammer has used bogus header information, the trace attempt fails.</SMALL> Yes and no. Yes, forged From headers make it harder to trace the source, but not always impossible. Furthermore, many spams and scams contain links to the spamvertised website, which is hos...

Please forward scam emails to me as attachments. If you cannot forward as an attachment you will have to set your email options to display the full incoming headers, then forward the email to me with the headers showing. Aside from that the recommendation to forward it to spoof@paypal.com is the bes...

Those emails are coming from Nigerian criminals, whom I have been trying to block from accessing the SGF for almost two years now. With your help I can get rid of the new ones that are pestering you guys with scam offers and kited overpayment checks. Send me those scam emails - forwarded as attachme...

That is a known scam. You could help protect the membership of the SGF by forwarding such scams to me, AS AN ATTACHMENT. If you use a browser-based email application you will have to search your options for how to forward emails as an attachment. If you use Hotmail and certain other browser-based em...

If you have already asked him to stop sending you his email messages, yet he continues to do so, he is overstepping. If the messages contain any references at all to any business enterprise, of any nature, that propels his email into the catagory of UCE (spam). Report him to SpamCop and he will prob...

Just a reminder to SGF members, if you receive what appears to be a blatant scam email pertaining to items you have posted for sale on the SGF, I would appreciate it if you would forward those emails to me as attachments (not plain old forwarding). If you are using hotmail via your browser it will n...

Archie; Do you notice the salutation says "Dear member?" That is the first sign of a scam. All PayPal messages will address members by their full name. Do as suggested and forward it to spoof@paypal.com ------------------ Bobby D. Hunter Security for SGF Hunting down Slimeball Game Reporti...

I looked at the headers and message text and there is nothing to suggest that this is a scam, nor is it of known foreign origin. All IP addresses in the received from lines are in the USA, and from the same ISP. I have looked at many scam emails and none were as concise and trackable as this one. Co...

I have looked at the source code for these emails and found absolutely no message body at all. However, the From addresses are forged and different in each one, while they all originated from the exact same computer owned by a Verizon customer in New York. My impression is that this is a Worm or vir...