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> On Oct 31, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Dennis Wish wrote:
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>> My wife opened the mail today and left a certificate for ASCE on my
>> desk that stated "ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) By
>> Action of the Board of Direction (or should this be Director's) MY
>> NAME has been 'elected' Affiliate Member……"
> I'd really be surprised if the ASCE would notify you by e-mail of
> something in such poor english. Laughably bad english is the hallmark
> of all the phishing and assorted send-me-money scams coming from
> Africa. You can probably check the headers to see where it actually
> came from. It couldn't possibly be the ASCE. They wouldn't even have
> your e-mail address.
Chris, this is two separate "messages." The first was a mailed
solicitation from ASCE, the second was an example of a phishing-scam
email that Dennis got. He was comparing them, but you're (unwittingly)
conflating them.
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