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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One? Message-ID: <Co5r12.4D0@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 17:53:26 GMT References: <2odk4h$333@herald.indirect.com> <2oe2hv$987@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Lines: 28 In article <2oe2hv$987@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> klier@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan Klier) writes: >nike@indirect.com (Laurence Canter) writes: > >>Green Card Lottery 1994 May Be The Last One! >>THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. > ... > In fact, is there no way to stop these people from using the net as a place >to advertise for their own private buisness. He posted this ad to virtually >every newsgroup I`m reading... Not so. If everyone always responds to such scumbags, then they will find it unprofitable to sift through 2,000,000 complaints about their spending our money to receive their nonsense. From what you say, this scam grosses $95 per sucker, but looking for the few dozen responses from suckers among a million complaints would not pay. I think this sleazeball has switched network providers since the last time he sent his messages, which suggests that complaints work. Of course, Sprint is not likely to be willing or able to do anything, but do you suppose he is bright enough to build a system that could cope with 2,000,000 irate email messages? If he were smart enough to do that, he wouldn't be a lawyer that needs this kind of business. I wonder if this flood is a forgery. Notice the strange cross postings. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com