Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: latest update on Re: [EXTREMELY OFF-TOPIC] The sad state of cgf's existing new laptop X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:29:31 -0400 Message-ID: <64AE3D5B518E3648ACC823FBCB0B7375B6CF1C@sr002-2kexc.ateb.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Reid Thompson" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h3RJUAh01929 I do believe the FBI investigates (or attempts to) these scams and prosecutes them whenever they can catch the culprit. That said, I think there's lots of culprits & not so lots of agents working on them.. I did read a couple of weeks ago where they DID arrest a couple that was scamming on ebay like this and pressed charges. reid > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] > Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 10:41 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: latest update on Re: [EXTREMELY OFF-TOPIC] The sad > state of cgf's existing new laptop > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:31:17AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:48:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:41:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>> >On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > >>> > > >>> >> > -----Original Message----- > >>> >> > From: Charles Werner [mailto:cw AT gamma-rs DOT ch] > >>> >> > Sent: 08 April 2003 07:41 > >>> >> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > >>> >> > Subject: [EXTREMELY OFF-TOPIC] The sad state of > cgf's existing > >>> >> > new laptop > >>> >> > > >>> >> > What email address do I use for cgf's paypal > account? Let's get > >>> >> > this man a computer! > >>> >> > >>> >> Good call, someone tell me how to give money with paypal or > >>> >> whatever, and I'll throw $10 dollars cgf's way. > >>> >> > >>> >> Make it list mail rather than personal, in case anyone > else wants > >>> >> to as well. Steve. > >>> > > >>> >Well, I don't quite know how to use PayPal, but it seems > to accept > >>> >cgf's e-mail at RedHat as registered. If this is > confirmed, I'll > >>> >post a link. > >>> > >>> That's me. > >>> > >>> >Chris, why postpone the inevitable? Please let the list > know which > >>> >address to use for donations, and let us help. ;-) > >>> > >>> Someone has already donated something there. I really > can't believe > >>> this and other expressions of sympathy I've received. > It's amazing > >>> how often a bad experience can offer new positive perspectives on > >>> life. > >>> > >>> *sniff* Something in my eye... > >>> cgf > >> > >>I've realized a while ago that the one deserving person > Chris cannot > >>really give a gold star to is himself, but this is lots > better than a > >>gold star... :-D > >> > >>Ok, everyone, if you want to contribute a token of your > appreciation > >>to the Ruler, Czar, and Monarch (RCM) of Cygwin, the person who > >>oversees the Cygwin project, provides us with useful packages like > >>"cygwin", "sh-utils", "man/groff/less", "gcc/binutils/gdb/bison", > >>"texinfo", and many more, handles our whining and (oh, horror) GPL > >>questions on a regular basis, and still finds the time to > hack on the > >>Cygwin DLL, the one and only CGF, you may use the following link: > >> cgf%40redh > >>at.com> > > > >Btw, paypal just sent me email because someone forwarded my > message to > >them. They told me to do a bunch of things that I'd already > done and > >made some observations which seemed to imply that they > actually hadn't > >read the email that had been forwarded to them. I took the > opportunity > >to ask them if I could get the personal information on the > scumbag for > >a law enforcement agency. Lets see if they ignore this request, too. > > > >Thanks, whoever you were, for getting them to contact me. And, many > >many many many many thanks to the incredible outpouring of > generosity > >from the list. I couldn't believe it when I woke up today and found > >more donations from the list. I thought sure that this would be all > >finished by yesterday. > > > >I've used your generosity as an object lesson to my kids that there > >really are good people in the world. I mentioned it to my > parents too > >but after a half hour discussion about cygwin, free software, why > >cygwin isn't really a Red Hat enterprise, etc., I don't > think they got > >it. > > > >The kids got it, though. It's almost worth the pain of > financial loss > >to be able to point at the fact that the world isn't a completely > >uncaring place. I'm sure they think that Dad is a little > embarrassing > >for getting choked up when he tells the story of the kind > folks in the > >cygwin mailing list, but what the heck... > > > >I need to give myself some off-topic coal for this thread > but I really > >do appreciate the commiseration I've received. It has been a really > >tough couple of weeks for me thanks to this and another even more > >serious issue and the response of people here has really helped. > > > >Ok. Enough of my slobbering. Get back to work. > > > >You over there! cygwin-apps isn't a bug reporting mailing list! Are > >you crazy? > > > >And you! Yes, you with the cron problem! We need cygcheck > output! As > >an attachment, dammit! > > > >What? You aren't shipping sources with your binaries? Are > you daft, > >man? Have you never heard of the GPL? I quiver with > outrage at your > >impertinence! > > > >That's better. > > For those keeping score on this saga, here is the latest: A > week or so ago the PayPal person that someone here put me in > touch with gave me the contact info from PayPal. The phone > number given was for an abortion clinic in Sayreville, NJ. Whoopee. > > Enough time has now passed that I can finally file a formal > claim with eBay. Actually, I probably could have done that a > week or so ago. So, I've done that. Now in another month I > can maybe get my $175 of insurance. Whee. > > A couple of people have suggested that I could contact the > FBI about this. Can anyone confirm or deny this fact? Does > anyone here know precisely the right path to follow here? > Would contacting the Sayreville police department help? I'm > a little discouraged and gun shy about this ordeal but I > really have to steel myself to keep moving forward and doing > the right thing. Even if I can't recover my money, it would > be satisfying to see the guy fined or in jail, or whatever > happens to scum like this. > > And, again, thank you to all whose charity I have received. > As I said, now when I tell the story of my stupidity to > people, I have an amazing twist to the whole scenario. To > me, it brings a whole new meaning to term "free software community". > > As I have intimated this is a particularly bad time for me > right now. This incident came in the middle of a number of > crises. As seems to be so often the case, this problem, > which would have been enough of an annoyance was just one of > many and, in some ways, it was the least of my worries. > Still, the thought of being scammed in this way does hit me > on a daily basis. > > Anyway, enough this off-topic self-pity. Thanks again, and > again, I'm asking for advice on how to proceed. A few people > have sent me email about near misses that they've experienced > on eBay. I'm wondering how common my story is and if there > is actually a number of people in a similar boat. I'm > wondering if this is a Slashdot-worthy story... > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/