[nabs-l] Petition: Elimination of Background Checks due to Budget Cuts

[Beth]

I heard about those on Oprah.  419 e-nauks are a bad news thing.


On 5/9/09, T. Joseph Carter <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:
> It goes something like this...
>
> I am some random person, either an official of some kind, a banker, a
> lawyer, a widow, or something.  I am writing to you about an
> arbitrary large amount of money with lots of zeroes as a number
> (repeated as words in parentheses).  Please help me do this good deed
> and help yourself in the process.  Contact me at this phone number
> (which I won't mention is a disposable mobile phone..)
>
> You do, and they get you to authorize bank transfers and there's a
> small fee that will be deducted from your account.  Your life's
> savings, essentially.
>
> Congratulations, sucker, someone conveniently outside US jurisdiction
> just ripped you off and is laughing all the way to the bank where
> they quickly shift the money around a bit so it cannot be recovered
> by the time you manage to do something about it.
>
> Many variants exist because the original was so formulaic that even
> though the "story", currency, and value constantly changed, people
> wrote programs (and not even terribly smart programs) to spot one of
> these things a mile away.  The original message kind of resembles a
> 419 message.  (419 is the country code for calling Nigeria, by the
> way, though modern variants purport to be from many countries.)
>
> Joseph
>
>
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:24:32PM -0400, Serena wrote:
>> What's a "four one nine email?"
>>
>> Serena
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "T. Joseph Carter"
>> <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Petition: Elimination of Background Checks due to
>> Budget Cuts
>>
>>
>>> Are we sure this isn't a 419 (four one nine) email?  Yes, I'm seriously
>>> asking.
>>>
>>> Joseph
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:02:40AM -0700, Rob Lambert wrote:
>>>> ELIMINATION OF BACKGROUND CHECKS DUE TO BUDGET CUTS
>>>> We are deeply
>>>> concerned that as of April 1, the DPPC (Disabled Persons Protection
>>>> Commission), because of budget cuts, had to stop allowing employers to
>>>> tap into its database of complaints to do background checks on the
>>>> people they want to hire to work with the disabled. It has been
>>>> reported that the DPPC is applying for a federal grant to continue the
>>>> background checks, but until money comes from either a grant or another
>>>> source, people with disabilities could potentially be victims of more
>>>> abuse and neglect than in the past. We urge you to help the DPPC find
>>>> the money - $60,000 (sixty thousand) - to continue providing this
>>>> essential service.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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