[at-l] Weird Email (WARNING - off topic question)

[pelliott@isd.net (Patrick Elliott)]

You could be getting the e-mail from someone who subscribes to this list.
Many marketers now just subscribe to as many of these list servers as they
can and collect the e-mail addresses from the messages.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bullard" <bullard@northnet.org>
To: "AT-L" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:57 PM
Subject: [at-l] Weird Email (WARNING - off topic question)


> This is strange. Lately I've been getting weird email. First there was the
> guy in Nigeria (allegedly, it was a Lycos email account) who wanted me to
> use my business to launder some ill gotten gains. My son (computer
> programmer type) dismissed that as a scam attempt to get my bank account
> number. Then there was the guy from India who said he was starting a
> pharmaceutical company and wanted a catalog of the equipment my company
had
> to offer. He didn't ask for a bank account number but did include a long
> list of the types of equipment he wished to purchase. And today I got an
> email from Son Ho Jin to "Lu" apologizing for taking so long to reply.
>
> I do have a business (of sorts, strictly part-time at this point) as an
> artist/craftsman but I don't sell industrial equipment, there's no one
> named "Lu" here and I wasn't expecting a reply from Son Ho Jin, whoever
> that is.
>
> My question for any email experts on the list (we do seem to have a fair
> number of techies): Is it possible for email to be misdirected by routers
> and end up in the wrong virtual mailbox just like what sometimes happens
> with the USPS? Note: This has happened before, getting email from someone
I
> don't know who isn't selling anything and has no reason to have my email
> address (as far as I can determine) but it's gotten frequent in the last
> couple of weeks.
>
> Saunterer
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT-L mailing list
> AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/at-l