Re: Big Trouble in Little China?

On 7/24/2013 09:17, Mike Reed wrote:
> Waldo,
>
> You should see the d.net meetmap.

never heard of it, mike... sorry...

> I have been to 5 different countries supporting distributed.net and its contributors.

i wasn't aware that d.net needed such support... very interesting...

> Next time you have a problem, call me and I'll write something nice.

as i just wrote in another post, my apologies if i offended anyone with my 
original post... other than the perfect english, it really did look bad... it 
wouldn't have been so except for it being almost exactly like the scams i 
pointed to...

i do hope that greg, amy and lily are able to make it home without much further 
delay and that they are able to find the translation services they need... i 
have two sons (one passed several years ago in a motorcycle accident) and five 
grandchildren (one of which is now handicapped due to drowning a year ago) so i 
know how stressful and painful things can be when they don't go as planned or 
desired...

> Best wishes,
> Mike
>
> On Jul 24, 2013 9:03 AM, "Chris Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     http://www.3news.co.nz/Baby-stuck-in-China-closer-to-coming-home/tabid/423/articleID/306182/Default.aspx#ixzz2ZvxifFsP
>
>     On 24/07/2013, at 2:11 PM, waldo kitty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>     On 7/23/2013 23:20, Benjamin Kaufman wrote:
>>>     Greg is a very good friend of Dnet as well as Mike.
>>
>>     i understand that... i also understand that email accounts can easily be
>>     broken into... especially with the recent hacks... the ubuntu forums' hack
>>     being one of the latest known ones...
>>
>>>     I can assure you this is no scam.
>>
>>     you have proof outside of this list and external to dnet? please, i don't
>>     want to see anyone's hard earned money going to a scam artist... i spend
>>     my days protecting folks from scams exactly like this... in many cases,
>>     though, there is the "bit off" english which gives them away... they are
>>     getting better and somewhat harder to detect...
>>
>>>     On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:18 PM, waldo kitty<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>     On 7/23/2013 22:14, Mike Reed wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>     Our friend Greg and his wife Amy were returning home to New Zealand from
>>>>>     holidays in Europe when Amy unexpectedly gave birth to a premature baby
>>>>>     girl (27 weeks gestation). Mom and baby Lily are doing OK now... but
>>>>>     they're stuck in Shanghai for the time being.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     this really really really smells of recent scams about friends or family
>>>>     being on a trip somewhere and asking for donations to help them get home...
>>>>     they aren't in trouble and any donations go to the scam artist(s) and not
>>>>     the friends or family members...
>>>>
>>>>     my advice is stay away unless and until this "sad story" is proven via other
>>>>     unrelated channels...
>>>>
>>>>     FWIW: yes, i work with network security all the time... phishing and scams
>>>>     like this appears to be are quite common...



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