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by Gotcha! Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:34 am
I have spent most of my time on 419eater learning and stuff, I have a few lads on the hook now. I got something new though. I got a letter from a lad claiming to be female and trying the romance approach. I didn't think much of it at first, but...
When I decided to check the details, I got a huge list of addy's the lad cc'd and not sure if i should give the list someone. I recognized a few addy's as being baiters but not sure about the rest. Should someone take a look at it? Or should I just ignore it and go on?
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by Michael Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:27 am
Hi there Gotcha!, welcome to scamwarners.

You can either PM it to a moderator over at eater or to a staff member here who will be happy to look into it. Please provide some details (at what point in the bait did you receive it, script itself, emailadress from the scammer) and we will take a look at it and deal with it. Thanks for the assistance! :)

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by Gotcha! Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:22 pm
This was not a bait yet, this was the first letter I got from the lad, I always look at the details to see what e-mail provider they use, if I might waste my time looking at the header and so on. It was in this fist one I got, I haven't responded to it yet. It just surprised me that all those cc'd e-mail attachments were included. I contacted a mod over at eater, he said he would get back to me, but never did. He said it wasn't an emergency or anything (I never though so myself) I didn't know if this is actually common, or if it might be something useful, or helpful, or what.
by Jillian Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:42 pm
Hi Gotcha,

Welcome to ScamWarners. :D This does happen quite a bit when scammers forget to use blind carbon copy. You can send us the list and we'll check it but it's likely we won't send out warnings to a list of cc in a first format from a scammer. While we do love scammer mistakes and those are some of how we get information to warn victims, warning the lists from these first scripts isn't something we normally do. The reasons are that: many of the people will just ignore the scammer email to begin with, many on the list often turn out to be baiters and because scammers often include some of their own addresses in that list to test their bombing run and we don't want to warn them and educate them about ScamWarners.

As I said, you can send us the lists if you'd like and we'll take a look, but most likely we won't issue warnings.

If, however, you get information about possible victims any further into the bait, please do send it to any mod at 419Eater or here.

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