OT: Re: What's the scam? (was: what´s the prize?)

2003-10-18 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Anthony DeRobertis had the gall to say: > > On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 17:02 US/Eastern, david albarran wrote: > > >hi! i want to know what this is about. and if i won a prize tell me as > >soon as you can i¥m the 50,000,000 th user, so show me the money. > > OK, we get a fair number of th

Re: OT: Re: What's the scam ? (was: what´s the prize?)

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:43:04AM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis had the gall to say: > > OK, we get a fair number of these. So do some other people. None of the > > claimants ever seem to respond when asked about the details. From > > googling, here are some other referenc

Re: OT: Re: What's the scam? (was: what´s the prize?)

2003-10-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 06:43, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > IMHO, it's spammers abusing the "Finally - a question *I* can help > with!" feeling of low/middle-ability users on The Other OS. I'd guess it also has something to do with fooling ISP abuse departments. If an abuse department gets a compla

OT: Re: What's the scam? (was: what´s the prize?)

2003-10-18 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Anthony DeRobertis had the gall to say: > > On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 17:02 US/Eastern, david albarran wrote: > > >hi! i want to know what this is about. and if i won a prize tell me as > >soon as you can i¥m the 50,000,000 th user, so show me the money. > > OK, we get a fair number of the

Re: OT: Re: What's the scam? (was: what´s the prize?)

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:43:04AM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis had the gall to say: > > OK, we get a fair number of these. So do some other people. None of the > > claimants ever seem to respond when asked about the details. From > > googling, here are some other referenc

Re: OT: Re: What's the scam? (was: what´s the prize?)

2003-10-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 06:43, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > IMHO, it's spammers abusing the "Finally - a question *I* can help > with!" feeling of low/middle-ability users on The Other OS. I'd guess it also has something to do with fooling ISP abuse departments. If an abuse department gets a compla