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To: 'Carl Clifford' <>, 'Greg Little' <>
Subject: scam
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:04:13 +1100
About a dozen of these get past the list's filters each day, and the moderators 
check them one by one. I clicked the wrong button for that one.

I'm told that the mail coming in to the list server is more than 50% spam that 
gets blocked automatically, so it could be worse.

Peter Shute

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  
>  On Behalf Of 
> Carl Clifford
> Sent: Monday, 19 December 2011 9:32 AM
> To: Greg Little
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] scam
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Yep, I received one. Unfortunately, scammers tend to be able to jump  
> ahead of the spam filters. I doubt that there is anyone sufficiently  
> lobotomised to fall for the likes of these though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carl Clifford
> 
> 
> On 18/12/2011, at 10:38 PM, Greg Little wrote:
> 
> BA
> 
> 
> 
> Please note that I just received this email, see below, an obvious  
> scam. It
> was addressed through Birding-aus as shown. Did anyone else get one?
> 
> 
> 
> Greg Little
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ; on behalf of; W U M T
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Customer,
> 
> 
> 
> The first $5,000.00 was sent today. My working partner has helped me  
> to send
> the first $5,000.00 to you through western union. So contact 
> our Western
> Union claims Agent .........
> 
> 
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