Interesting e-mail....

[JasonS]

Hey,

In the last 24 hours I've received two of the same e-mail containing this content ;

I am khalid mahmoud from Bahrain,I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer. It has defiled all
forms of medical treatment,I have few months to live. I have decided to give alms to charity
organizations. I cannot do this myself because of my health. I have Eigh---- Million USD
with a finance House abroad. Can you help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to
charity organizations? You will take 20% for your assistance. reply via: khld.mahmoud@gmail.com

It's from EGIDEON@exchange.clemson.edu

What do you think?

[fnixws]

looks like someones uni email acct has been hijacked, or the PC has a virus

Maybe reply to the email telling them.

[hamster]

Yea, don't be taken in by it. Even though it's a .edu domain email address.

[daejuanj]

What's makes you so sure it's from EGIDEON@exchange.clemson.edu? Did you look at the headers? It's easy to spoof an email address.

[Decker]

Spoofed, just another spam/phising e-mail don't waste time on it.

[JasonS]

Hey,

I'm sure that a hosting company out there is selling details because I get sooo many spam e-mails every day, it's ridiculous!

[Decker]

I'm sure that a hosting company out there is selling details because I get sooo many spam e-mails every day

There's one hell of a lot of people out there selling email addresses, so what suddenly makes you think it's a host, not only that just catching domain lists and e-mailing all the usual prefixes.

Personally I'd throw them into a limepit, but since no one in authority is that bothered to catch and stop them we're all just going to have to live with it, especially as long as bulletproof mail servers are being made available.

[Dynash]

i get alot of these. anything relating to money, someone dieing, or helping out by making a bank account, i just flag.

i get alot of spam it's annoying. the email i use, and have done for years, like 7 ish or something now. i get about 1000 a day. and because it's the stupid spam filter, i have to go through them, to make sure emails like from friends/activation emails and such, aren't lost.

one time, i lost the internet for like 4 months, then i went to Spain for a holiday for 4 months, when i got the net back at home, i checked my email, i had nearly 100k emails. spent ages going through them ._.

i know i should get rid, but it's my main one.

[themoose]

LOL, just ignore it.

[Skylar]

The worste part is when they forge it from your server. had a few of those, forged from my main server IP, and once from my email, TO MY EMAIL? They emailed me with MY email as the forge? wow...

[Ben]

Go for it! You've got 3.6mil waiting for you, what's there to lose?

[Skylar]

Go for it! You've got 3.6mil waiting for you, what's there to lose?

Valuable *personal* time?

[Ben]

Yeah, that time could be spent masturbating. Forgive me.

[Cam.]

Yeah, that time could be spent masturbating. Forgive me.

LOL...

It's fraud just ignore it.

[mywebbie]

that's just a fraud. I also receive similar emails, along with emails claiming that they have money from Nigeria or whatever country.