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Article #17715"path too long" scam
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:28
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:28
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> This is a WINDOWS tool, which doesn't seem to have an OS/2 version > available. Therefore it doesn't belong in this news group. > It's a Windows tool intended to sucker money out of Windows users who have not read Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q177665. Since the scammers don't really care about that, the fact that they don't care about multi-posting into an OS/2 newsgroup (and a newsgroup about newsreaders) is almost secondary. Note that the person who is trying to sell this old rope to the world picks a different name for every round of mass-postings, too.
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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe14.ams2.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mailReferences:
<e0deff6f-45ae-433e-beac-407484b280ba@e8g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-pyKlTeotGshJ@blah.blah.com>Show Full Headers
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X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,a4e59304d23ceefa X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 10c3a8,ab52fb131bf16b19,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid92bd64a672,gid9ab450860d,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe14.ams2.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,it.comp.software.newsreader Followup-To: alt.usenet-spammers.selling.old-rope Subject: "path too long" scam References: <e0deff6f-45ae-433e-beac-407484b280ba@e8g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-pyKlTeotGshJ@blah.blah.com> In-Reply-To: <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-pyKlTeotGshJ@blah.blah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <IU.D20110406.T172752.P16494.Q0@J.de.Boyne.Pollard.localhost> Lines: 11 NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.20.254.174 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe14.ams2 1302113184 86.20.254.174 (Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:06:24 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:06:24 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:28:06 +0100