On Thursday 04 July 2002 18:17, Oliver Ob wrote:

Keith Winston schrieb:

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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:08:58AM -0400, zentara wrote:

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Hi, I've been getting alot of those emails from Africa, you know the ones, open a bank account so we can transfer the billions looted from our country by my rich dead father who was murdered by revolutionaries. We only trust you.

Is there some government agency that collects these for fraud investigation. Who would I forward these to?

In the U.S., they would go to uce@ftc.gov. Outside the U.S. I don't know.

What sense should it make to fw a mail from Africa to US gov?

Hence the "outside the U.S. I don't know" comment. http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/fighters.htm is the 419 Coalition; they seem to be the largest single multi-country group opposing the scam. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-419.html is a German page; there are also English, US, Dutch, Spanish and various other pages. Hope this helps. Gideon. (And the fact that someone doesn't *know* the procedures outside their own country doesn't automatically make them a big imperialist running dog, OK?)

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:04:30 -0400, mike wrote:

It is probably a good idea to keep the US govt. out of it. They are grasping at any excuse to attenuate our freedoms, especially in the on-line arena. Education is the best tool in this case. Tell your friends, put up a web page, but don't involve George W. Dictator and his secret police!

many of which were put in place by the traitor Klinton and never replaced by Gee Dubya. Like the head of the IRS for example. aren't we getting off topic?? chas ...

On Thursday 04 July 2002 03:04 pm, mike wrote:

It is probably a good idea to keep the US govt. out of it. They are grasping at any excuse to attenuate our freedoms, especially in the on-line arena. Education is the best tool in this case. Tell your friends, put up a web page, but don't involve George W. Dictator and his secret police!

On Thursday 04 July 2002 15:47, Gideon Hallett wrote:

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On Thursday 04 July 2002 18:17, Oliver Ob wrote:

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Keith Winston schrieb:

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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:08:58AM -0400, zentara wrote:

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Hi, I've been getting alot of those emails from Africa, you know the ones, open a bank account so we can transfer the billions looted from our country by my rich dead father who was murdered by revolutionaries. We only trust you.

Is there some government agency that collects these for fraud investigation. Who would I forward these to?

In the U.S., they would go to uce@ftc.gov. Outside the U.S. I don't know.

What sense should it make to fw a mail from Africa to US gov?

I don't like Dubya any more than you do, but the folks looking into these scams are at the Secret Service and, I'm pretty sure, quite apolitical. They're after sleazy Nigerians, not us -- and if you doubt the sleaze part, just look at those emails. You should forward any Nigerian scammails to: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov They're building a database that hopefully will help track down some of those con men and put them in jail. Sympathy for rebels, nonconformists, and such is one thing; sympathy for scam artists quite another. Paul

I hope they can keep it at that, is all I am saying. Remember it was the Secret Service some 20 years ago who confiscated a curling iron because it was on the computer desk of a suspected hacker. I am all for cracking down on scam artists, I'm just uneasy expanding the powers of big brother, in any case. On Thursday 04 July 2002 15:43, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

On Thursday 04 July 2002 03:04 pm, mike wrote:

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It is probably a good idea to keep the US govt. out of it. They are grasping at any excuse to attenuate our freedoms, especially in the on-line arena. Education is the best tool in this case. Tell your friends, put up a web page, but don't involve George W. Dictator and his secret police!

On Thursday 04 July 2002 15:47, Gideon Hallett wrote:

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On Thursday 04 July 2002 18:17, Oliver Ob wrote:

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Keith Winston schrieb:

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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:08:58AM -0400, zentara wrote:

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Hi, I've been getting alot of those emails from Africa, you know the ones, open a bank account so we can transfer the billions looted from our country by my rich dead father who was murdered by revolutionaries. We only trust you.

Is there some government agency that collects these for fraud investigation. Who would I forward these to?

In the U.S., they would go to uce@ftc.gov. Outside the U.S. I don't know.

What sense should it make to fw a mail from Africa to US gov?

I don't like Dubya any more than you do, but the folks looking into these scams are at the Secret Service and, I'm pretty sure, quite apolitical. They're after sleazy Nigerians, not us -- and if you doubt the sleaze part, just look at those emails. You should forward any Nigerian scammails to:

419.fcd@usss.treas.gov

They're building a database that hopefully will help track down some of those con men and put them in jail. Sympathy for rebels, nonconformists, and such is one thing; sympathy for scam artists quite another.

Paul

Hi, May be the following links help http://www.freecolormanagement.com/505/index.html http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html Leo Lao Toma wrote:

Hi again

12 hours after, it looks as if no one has the faintest idea here on this! :-) Might have to call SuSE then ... (and of course, yes, I have all the hardware specs of the machine)

Thomas

-----Original Message----- From: Lao Toma [mailto:LaoToma@minangel.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:19 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SusE 8.0 Pro on SONY Vaio FX505

Hi!

Anybody on the list with some hands-on experience on SuSE 8.0 Pro on SONY Vaio FX505?

I've just installed my copy but no sound! (same happened for a friend on a SONY Vaio FX705. And I need to use an external mouse as touchpas doesn't work.

Any solutions? (in despair, I will contact SuSE under the 90 install support schema ...)

TIA