Ja boet, thought the pong was tuna (fish in a barrel...)
Bullsh$t detector verified functional.
Didn't realise this sort of scam was so common.
I can imagine a lot of punters would be taken in by the seeming authenticity of the message and skinned alive. "They are really getting sophisticated out there," said Ina Steiner, publisher of AuctionBytes.com, a Web site with a pair of auction-focused newsletters. "People that I talk to are experienced Internet and eBay users, and they got fooled."
Will suggest to Danny that he puts up a warning somewhere.
GWANGMYUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - PaperTiger, thatz interesting!
Richard, here's the full header (real email addy replaced)
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Return-path: <
[email protected]>
Received: from msg-proxy6 ([196.2.55.30])
by mailhost4.mweb.co.za (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.10 (built Jan
23 2003)) with ESMTP id <
[email protected]> for
macsemail@ims-ms-daemon; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:24:09 +0200 (SAST)
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by msg-proxy6.mweb.co.za
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003))
with ESMTP id <
[email protected]> for
[email protected]
(ORCPT
[email protected]); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:16:08 +0200 (SAST)
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by vwfilter.mweb.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3AD3179B for <
[email protected]>; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:20:26 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from bgp553095bgs.ewndsr01.nj.comcast.net
(bgp553095bgs.ewndsr01.nj.comcast.net [68.38.187.19])
by viruswall-mw05.mweb.co.za (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E0AA3053F for <
[email protected]>; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:20:24 +0200 (SAST)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 03:26:11 +0000
From: "
[email protected]" <
[email protected]>
Subject: Important Information Regarding Your Paypal Account (54504844)
In-reply-to: <
[email protected]>
To: macsemail <
[email protected]>
Message-id: <
[email protected]>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
References: <
[email protected]>
Original-recipient: rfc822;
[email protected]
Lets all be careful out there...
[I preferred "Let's do it to them before they do it to us"]
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