This is getting so much worse. Zillions of mails from Nigeria [in particular] , promising free money, all clearly scams by the local gangsters.
But, not engaging with these chaps is not enough. The volume of them is simply getting oppressive. It amounts to a ‘denial of service’. Bloody hooligans!
I tried writing a simple request for info, from the Nigerian High Commission. No courtesy of a reply of course, but though I would try the correct way of complaint before I go to stage two 🙂
I’ve just sent the first batch of several hundred spam mails, sent to me, forwarded on to them. Just me doing this, wont change much, but if all gave it a go .. .. .. I imagine they’ll get cross.
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Nigerian High Commissioner
London
UK.
chancery@nigeriahighcommissionuk.com
Subj: spam mail from Nigeria
Sir
As you may know, span [unsolicited email] is an international problem, and needs to be dealt with by international treaties, to most effective.
Like everyone else, I get my fair share.
However, over this last year, over 90% of such mail, arriving in my mail box, is from people in Nigeria, asking me to engage in non-existent business proposals. They usual involve the laundering of ex-presidents money etc.
To have your country so over represented in this annoying practice, may perhaps be considered my many, to be indicative of a lack of care, by your government, in its business reputation.
I guess there are millions of us in this situation, but as time goes by, the volume is increasing. You may gather, so is the annoyance of those receiving all this.
I don’t suppose that there is an easy answer, but I would ask what, if anything at all, is being done to deal with the situation.
I know little of your country, but, I think you’ll agree that your reputation international is being harmed by this plague.
I have many contacts in the UK, both friends and business, and ALL report the same situation, so it is not as if I am just an unlucky recipient. The police also say the same.
A simple request to you for information. What is being done?
If you doubt the volume of the problem I report to you, perhaps I may start to forward examples, to so demonstrate, rather than just delete by the hundred, as I currently do.
I trust I may hear from you shortly.
Very best
Alan Lodge
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Nigerian Emails africanscam.co.uk http://www.africanscam.co.uk and ….
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com further, http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm
