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Internet Fraud
By Richard Moody

Bruce Clark had an interesting idea about using a fake password at
a suspected web site.  After all, a criminal web site wants a response.
However, I don't know if I want my machine connected to such a site,
especially as I am on dialup and with no firewall.

I think most of the trouble comes from those emails you can't respond
to.  If they were legitimate there is no reason I can see you shouldn't
be able to reply to them.  How many times have we done that only to
have an "undeliverable" back in our "in box".  I am wondering if there
is a program that does that for you in the back ground, and then blocks
the emails that fail a ping (or is there something else also?) from
your inbox.  Just think of how many "I have a lot of money in Nigeria"
emails would have been blocked.  I would say in every scam the first
priority is to disguise the origin but that gives a big red alert to
the scam to begin with because they would fail a "reply to" response.

Richard Moody
http://www.pnotec.com/


(Message sent Mon 28 Feb 2005, 06:40:33 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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