AMBER Archive (2002)

Subject: Are posters to the Amber list being spammed?

From: Nicholson, James D Mr ARO (James.Nicholson_at_apg.amedd.army.mil)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 19:48:15 CST

Dear List Members:

I've been receiving several banking scams per week along the lines of the
scam where they promise you a cut of some large amount if you will help them
transfer it out of an African bank. I'm getting them from all over with a
number of variations.

I'm wondering if these spammers are picking up the names from the archives
of the list? If this is the case, you might want to mangle the e-mail names
in the archive and attach a note that e-mails need to be rewritten to be
used.

There are probably better solutions as well.

-Jim N.