Brings me to the point that there should be a spam filter in the marketing mailing list. We did get quite a few of "I'm Natasha, I'm from Russia". I actually did reply to those people in Russian, funny enough they continued copy&paste of the pre-made text "Glad to here from you, here are some pictures of me .......".
Lol. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I know this is non Ubuntu related but I get so much from the community I > thought I would share this "experience"..... > > I received a message from someone that indirectly sent me an email from a > community based web site that I really only joined to get free phone text > messages and I (unusual for me) decided to "play a game" to see what was > going on. The whole thing was obviously a scam but I was curious to see > what the object was. Now my first mistake appears to have been advertising > for a motorcycle of a particular type that I would like to purchase. The > second was joining a forum to try to assist people with electrical safety > issues in Thailand (I am an electrician. Without boring you with all the > details (however if you want the copies I can send them) I enlisted the > aid of a person on the net that deals with this sort of thing and it has > now got to the stage where they have requested certain details about myself, > the obvious thing being identity fraud, I haven't finished with the episode > yet and it may be worse and I just can't see it yet. The scary part of this > is that with a simple search of my email address they could obtain all the > info except 2 and a 1/2 things they have asked for without being "Sherlock > Holmes". Now I consider myself to be fairly "paranoid" on the web and have > even opened the email accounts in a different name than my own (and > fortunately this is one of the pieces of info they are missing), but it has > "woken" me up a bit and I was thinking it may be a good time to give other > people a bit of a wake up. Data innocently collected for community projects > (like this one) can inadvertently give the wrong people the tools they need > o wreck your life. It could take years and a lot of money to rectify the > damage (let alone the direct expense) of this sort of criminal activity. > > Cheers and keep up the good work > Tony > > -- > Ubuntu-marketing-submissions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing-submissions > > -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs
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