Subj : Nigerian Scam still a To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Oct 15 2021 08:15:00 Hi Ky! > Just received one of those Nigerian scam e-mails -- just a bank > official, guess I'm not worthy of being written to by a prince! Didn't > think they were still going around! KM> Earthlink uses Norton's enterprise antivirus/spamtrap. It's been KM> very good for a long time; I hadn't seen more than the odd one or KM> two of these Nigerian spams a year in about 20 years. KM> A few months ago suddenly I was getting a LOT of these KM> old-fashioned Nigerian spams, and the common factor was that ALL KM> came from some random GMail address. KM> I whined at Earthlink in Large Block Letters (got escalated, KM> even), and reported bales of them as spam, and the problem KM> finally went away again. KM> But I'm thinkin' since it wasn't just Earthlink, that it was a KM> failure in Norton's spamtrap software, that was automatically KM> passing everything sent from GMail as not-spam. KM> And obviously we can't just blacklist GMail, too many Real People KM> use it. So the fix was waiting for Norton to do something about KM> it, and probably a pending update for smaller customers. Whoop!Whoop! Overquote alert! This was received on one of my GMail accounts, and no, would probably not be a good idea to blacklist (or whitelist) a whole ISP! As for your situation, probably was very helpful for you to have tracked at least some of the sources: maybe a common source of sending IP found by the investigating team, especially when combined with other helpful complaints. ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Headlines! Lingerie Shipment Hijacked -- Thief Gives Police The Slip --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .