On 6/16/2014 10:12 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 6/15/2014 10:12 PM, nestork wrote:
Oren:

I'm presuming you're just being facetious because you got an e-mail
telling you that you've won a million dollars. All you have to do is
e-mail some guy in the Netherlands to confirm it's a valid e-mail
address, and then you start getting a hundred spam messages a day in
your inbox.

But, I'm having trouble understanding what this cwn1.nl.rogers.com's
motivation would be in receiving all these e-mails from people all over
the world (or I expect that's the extent of it). The only thing that
makes sense to me is that he's a spammer trying to build an e-mail
database to spam.

Or, do you see any other motivation here?

You aren't familiar with how these scams work? The sucker replies back
to claim his/her prize, at which point the scammer tells them there's a
processing or handling fee involved, and asks for a credit card or bank
account number. Sucker obliges - and the scammer has what he wanted.
Bonus for scammer: confirmed valid email of a confirmed sucker - which
is worth a little bit of money to other scammers, who are also looking
for the suckers.


What's the big deal about giving someone your bank account number? Heck,
it is on every check that you write so it is not a big secret.