Re: FLASH: OT: The spam/scam sham, or, Samir redux

[Tom Green]

Ken Sherwood wrote:


> <snip>

> The *only way* I could be wrong about Samir is if the Samir Ahmed

>

<miltechemirates [dot] net [dot] ae> who *launched* the sheikhmohammed.co.ae site is

>

*not* the same Samir Ahmed <Samir [dot] Asheikhmohammed [dot] co [dot] ae> who describes

> himself as "Web Development Team Manager, http://www.SheikhMohammed.co.ae"

> ... "both of whom" are or have been members of this list. Perhaps,

somehow,

> this could be the case, but it seems to me to be a real stretch.


No stretch at all, Ken.


A couple of years back this same Sheik worked his way through the Direct-L

list

and I still remember getting spams regarding how this Sheik was the greatest

thing since sliced bread.


It struck me at the time that the poster was suffering from a heavy duty

case

of "Suck Up".



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