OT - My First Nigerian Scam Email - Page 2

Atrocities · #1 September 14th, 2005, 02:53 PM

You know what, we should have a law in place that makes our ISP responsable for filtering these scams out.... In fact IT SHOULD BE A LAW.

Combat Wombat · #2 September 14th, 2005, 03:14 PM

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Atrocities said:
You know what, we should have a law in place that makes our ISP responsable for filtering these scams out.... In fact IT SHOULD BE A LAW.

God I hope you are joking atrocities, the last thing we need is to give ISPs or anyone permission to filter what we can see on the internet.

El_Phil · #3 September 14th, 2005, 03:36 PM

700 posts. Woot.

The easiest way is to get people to stop responding. If no-one responded to scams and spam it would stop. But how you ask? Well we could try education, or we could let natural selection run its course. Most people who get scammed once probably wont get caught again, those who do will soon be so poor they can't afford internet access.

Mind you that could be quiet slow, maybe education would be better.

Xrati · #4 September 14th, 2005, 04:56 PM

When I get those e-mails, I just wish I could write a virus and send it back to them trashing their computers. But alas, I'm not that sharp!

From what I do understand, most of those e-mails come from prisons where the inmates are sending these things out and running scams from prison! Wouldn't be great if prisons were for prisoners and not Gates wannabe's!