On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:04:25 +0000 Came this utterance formulated by Brian Barker to my mailbox:
> At 14:33 23/03/2009 -0400, Gene Young wrote: > >This is a known scam. Someone spoofs an email, requests monetary > >assistance be sent to a particular location and disappears. > > How right you are! > > A relevant header reads: X-Originating-IP: [196.3.183.73]. This > address appears to be located in Nigeria. It's blacklisted by > spamcop.net, abuseat.org, sorbs.net, and spamhaus.org - amongst > others. > > Previous messages from the spoofed address suggest that its owner is > one time zone east of GMT (UTC) and that he keeps daylight saving > time in the northern hemisphere's summer. Nigeria is one zone east > of UTC but - being tropical - does not exercise daylight saving. So > his domicile is unlikely to be Nigeria (but probably central > Europe). Oh, and if (as he once told) he uses the English (UK) > version of OpenOffice, he would probably use British rather than US > spelling: thus "travelling" instead of "traveling" and possibly even > "programme" instead of "program". > > As you suggest, it's not our friend who has sent this message. but > instead a scammer. > Then he must have access to our friends hotmail account. How else will he pursue the transaction? -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
