[chapter-delegates] [Fwd: Tsunami e-mail abuse....]

[slater at speedsite.com]

[ From Bill Slater, writing on Christmas Holiday from Warsaw, Poland,
January 6, 2005, 11:13 AM (GMT+1).

Hello Frank,

Good point.  Just yesterday, I received the following information below
from one of the Security E-Mail Newsletters that I subscribed to.

The Internet and web have become a humongous electonic cess pool.  You
cannot be too careful in my opinion.

By the way, my tsunami website is at
http://billslater.com/tsunami_2004_1226/index.htm

Best regards,


William F. Slater, III
President, ISOC-Chicago
slater at billslater.com

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[ Note: Copied verbatim, complete with typos, bad grammer and
misspellings.  WFS]


Wednesday: January 05, 2005

A new fraudulent email has begun circling the Internet. It claims to be
from an Asian charity helping the victims of the recent devastating
Tsunami that hit South-East Asia.

A member of an anti-scam forum has said, Nigerian scammers have sent out
an email, originating from Lagos in Nigeria, claiming to be from a
Singaporean charity that is involved with the relief effort. They ask that
recipients send money by Western Union to help out the victims of the
disaster.

The fraudulent email states:

DEAR SIR/MADAM

SIR WE WANT TO SAKE YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT FINANCIALY FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF
THE DISSASTER FOR THE DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE ASIA TSUNAMIS EARTHQUAKE
ATTACK. WE ARE SLOID FOUNDATION A HUMANITARY AND NON GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANISATION IN ASIA.

PLEASE WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT WITH AT LIST

100 DOLLAR UPWARD TO ASSIT MORE THAN 2,000,000 DISPLACED PEOPLE AND OVER
500,000 HOMELESS, AND over 33,000 poeple are dead and we need to assit the
families of the dead people. WE NEEDED THE FUNDS TO HELP GET FOOD,
MATERIALS, DRUGS, FUEL, ETC...

YOU CAN SEND YOUR DONATIONS TO ANY OF OUR CENTRES IN ASIA.  All donations
by cash should be send by western union money transfer. When you send in
your donation, send it by cheque or money order. That way you can trace
it, you have a printed record of it and you also have something for tax
purposes, said Sheila Charneski, with the BBB.

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> It seems we have a new form of SPAM.
>
> Just to alert you... I sent the message below internally after receiving
> that:
>
> This boy is about 2 years old. Found and taken from Khao Lak Resort
> Area, the southern part of Thailand. His parents are missing. His
> nationality cannot be identified.
>
> Please take a look at the attached pictures of this victim (a 2 years
> old boy) from Tsunami. If you do not know him, please forward his
> pictures to your friends or organization in your country for further
> publication.
>
> I thank you all for extending kindness to this boy.
>
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Tess Ruktapurana
> Thai Airways International PCL
>
> [Picture of sick white boy]
>
> I don't know the extent of the problem, Not sure what ISOC can do, but
> may be they could contact the right people to issue some sort of
> warning. I think there are already too many people abusing the event
> (kids adoption/kidnapping in Indonesia).
>
> However, if someone can ensure me this message is true, then I will help
> to rewrite it, so it's authenticity can be easily verified.
>
> Cheers
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Tsunami e-mail abuse....
> Date: 	Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:30:00 +1200
> From: 	Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org>
> Organization: 	SOPAC
> To: 	SOPAC Everyone
>
>
>
> All, please be aware.
>
> It seems there are now a couple of e-mails circulating around about
> missing persons. They ask you to forward the e-mail to as many people
> you know. DON'T!!
>
> If the e-mail does not contain any detailed and authoritative
> information on a person to contact if you know the missing person, it is
> a hoax only there to saturate the Internet and especially our bandwidth.
>
> Do not be gullible, naif, or too sensitive, be alert!
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Franck Martin
> ICT Specialist
> franck at sopac.org
> SOPAC, Fiji
> GPG Key fingerprint = 44A4 8AE4 392A 3B92 FDF9  D9C6 BE79 9E60 81D9 1320
> "Toute connaissance est une reponse a une question" G.Bachelard
>
>
>
>
> --
> Franck Martin
> ICT Specialist
> franck at sopac.org
> SOPAC, Fiji
> GPG Key fingerprint = 44A4 8AE4 392A 3B92 FDF9  D9C6 BE79 9E60 81D9 1320
> "Toute connaissance est une reponse a une question" G.Bachelard
>
>


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