Re: FBI Alert - Computer Virus

From: Brian McCauley (nobull_at_mail.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:15:30 +0000

washington2452@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> FBI Alerts Public to Recent Email Scheme

This has nothing to do with Perl.

If you took the time to individually debunk all the 100s current e-mail
scams in every newsgroup then this would overwhelm any legitimate use of
Usenet. Please, do not help the pranksers and scam artists destroy our
cyber-communities.

> The FBI warned the public to avoid falling victim to an on-going mass
> e-mail scheme wherein computer users receive unsolicited e-mails
> purportedly sent by the FBI.

That's a waste of time. The public need to understand that they should
not fall for unsolicited mail scams _regardless_ of from whom they are
purportedly sent.

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