From CBC Prince Edward Island:
So tell me, had you thought it was possible for spam scammers to get any more evil?
So does this mean we can consider spammers terrorists now? 
<begins polishing up nuclear warhead, ready to drop on spammers>
Give me an IP. Please.
It’s easy for us to be smarmy about this. But given the number of people who’ve fallen for bog-standard Nigerian scams, there’ll be significant (albeit numerically few) victims to this one, without a doubt. The one saving grace is that once such an email arrives in a western country, a crime’s probably been committed, purely through the threat made. In the more normal scams, the crime is only committed in the country the email it’s sent from (obviously if they follow through with the scam there’s more crimes.)
My thoughts exactly.
I find this conclusion highly suspect.
Nonetheless, I hope they catch the bastard and do horrible things to him. Although, in a pinch, any other telemarketer would do as a scapegoat.
I hope they catch this moron. The last time somoene “offered” to kill me, I gave him an open invitation - 30 years later, I’m still waiting. Is there a Canadian equivalent to the FBI? I’m sure there is. Forward this sort of message directly to them, so they can try to track down the source.
The Canadian equivalent to the FBI is the RCMP.
This one certainly was. Wouldnt cry if they were put into gitmo for a couple of years. Then again I could say that about “regular” spammers as well, and about tabloid writers, but I wouldnt call them terrorists (yeah I know you were joking :))
Thank god.
It’s about friggen time those scammers realized the standard scam had played out.
Nitpick: The Mounties certainly carry out all the roles of the FBI, but they also do a lot of stuff that the FBI doesn’t, so they’re not exactly equivalent.
Well of course the spammers are pissed off. I’ll bet not one person in this thread offered to help that nice man in Nigeria who was trying to get the family millions out of the country, and none of you wanted to decrease your mortgage payments, get a college degree at home, increase the size of your ahem member, or buy your prescriptions at a huge savings.
It’s a fine state of affairs when you can’t screw people out of their money fair and square anymore. :rolleyes:
Do they really have horses? 
For ceremonial events.
The other dutys of the RCMP most closely resemble what State Police do here in the U.S. Most Provinces do not have Provincial Police forces ( Ontario and Quebec being notable exceptions, I believe)
Plus they do municipal policing in a lot of rural areas. It’s the whole gamut, from small town cop to liasons with international agencies, and everything inbetween.
Here’s an article from The Register, July 2004, containing a copy of one of the spam messages:
The letter appears to be derived from a scam-fax sent out as early as 1994:
That cheery message is reprinted from a State Department document (.pdf file), page 25:
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/naffpub.pdf
That has got to be the most pathetic piece of spam I’ve ever seen. I’m surprised they didn’t ask the recipient to make seven copies and forward them. I couldn’t take these bozos seriously if they were standing in my living room with a gun and the bodies of their last eight victims. If Prince Jamoh really wants to frighten people, he should threaten to put them on his mailing list.
Eh, that’s not so bad. A really evil spammer would say “Pay up now or we’ll spam you every day for the rest of your life!” And then do it anyway after receiving payment.
You think that’s bad, check out a piece of spam I found in my in-box today:
What the hell is THAT supposed to mean? And just what are they trying to sell me?
Jim Morrison is spamming from beyond the grave!