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Article #341Re: e-mail accusing you of internet terrorism?
From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:00
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Forwarded from uw.general: Heather Calder (HLCALDER@FEDS.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: > As one of our most popular economics professors says, "Warning, warning. > Danger, danger." > > If you have been chosen as one of the lucky ones, you got an e-mail today > telling you to cease and desist flaming and spamming, among other acts of > internet terrorism. The e-mail provides an attorney to whom all correspondence > is to be addressed, along with a bar number. Seems strange,doesn't it? Maybe > some people know more about this than I do, but I called the attorney to find > out what the heck it was. > > The e-mail is, of course, a hoax. Do not reply, because the sender is > apparently harvesting e-mail addresses for whatever use. The attorney is real, > the phone number is real, but the office did not send it out. The FBI is > currently investigating the e-mail, and the receptionist at the attorney's > office said that the sender is apparently an extremist. > > Just thought I would mention it so that semi-users like myself don't get > caught in surprise or upset! > > Heather. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Heather Calder > VP Student Issues > UW Federation of Students > 519-888-4567 ext. 6331 > > *SIRC online: http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~fedissue/sirc.html > *e-mail expert@feds > for confidential answers to your questions using UW resources -- #### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca #### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. #### > < Opinions are my own. You may consider them shareware. #### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105a5a,b6f9e8f2d2908954 X-Google-Attributes: gid105a5a,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,b6f9e8f2d2908954 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Subject: Re: e-mail accusing you of internet terrorism? Date: 1997/08/13 Message-ID: <5srq1f$t1j@freenet-news.carleton.ca> X-Deja-AN: 264225368 References: <5sno8p$mes_001@promote.uwaterloo.ca> X-Given-Sender: ag414@freenet3.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Reply-To: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Newsgroups: ott.online,can.infohighway