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Sick Hoax

To: Tony Russell <>
Subject: Sick Hoax
From: Dave Torr <>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:24:32 +1100
Perhaps we could recommend that the originator of this mail contact
those other kind folk who offer to cut Birding-Aus in on large sums of
money from time to time? I am sure they could help each other out!


On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:48:26 +1030, Tony Russell <> wrote:
> Thanks Russ, I saw it and dumped it ASAP.
> 
> Tony Russell
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Russell
> Woodford
> Sent: Sunday, 9 January 2005 6:57 AM
> To: birding aus
> Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Sick Hoax
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> I hope none of you were fooled by a message earlier this morning
> pretending to be from the Red Cross.  It was a poorly-constructed hoax,
> but just in case you were wondering, the Red Cross hasn't been
> soliciting donations by spamming mailing lists like Birding-Aus.  I
> think the spelling of "Worldwild" may have raised a few suspicions
> though!
> 
> Please be particularly alert for this sort of sick attempt to rob you
> or obtain credit card details.  There is nothing I can do to block all
> messages of this type, even though most of them fail to get through.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Russell
> 
> Russell Woodford
> Birding-Aus List Owner
> 
> Geelong   Victoria   Australia
> http://www.birding-aus.org
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