Re: [IRCA] Forwarded from a non-member (radio-related)

[Geralyn Hollerman <lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I want to try to help this guy but I don't know if he is legitimate. Can 
> someone investigate him? Maybe we can help as individual members or as a
> group.

I agree. Here's my $.02: 

He apparently sent a message to [IRCA] yesterday after browsing to the IRCA web
page, not realizing that his message would be rejected since this is a
members-only group (spammers are good at finding this group - especially ones
that write in Spanish!). He didn't understand the auto-generated rejection but
knew to e-mail me to complain - he asked if I had a problem with veterans or
handicapped people, to which I could only reply that I wasn't sure what he was
talking about, but that if his message was rejected, the reason for that was
that [IRCA] is a private (i.e. only members can post) group; if he wanted to
appeal to the members of [IRCA] for help of a radio-related nature, I'd be glad
to pass on a message to the group. He then replied back to me that he was
sorry, apparently we'd started off bad, but this (what I forwarded) was the
message he'd been trying to post. I told him I'd sent it on to the group, and I
just got another message from him, thanking me profusely. Yes, that is the
e-mail address he uses; that's the only one I have for him. I'm not sure how to
tell whether or not this is a legitimate appeal; it certainly seems on the
level to me, tho - that's why I passed it on. I haven't heard of any scams
lately involving any kind of radio, but that doesn't mean they don't exist! I
think maybe he's looking for radio people in a situation similar to his and
hoping maybe someone on this group can point him in the right direction. I was
kinda thinking in the general direction of the "Old Time Radio" groups - there
are some that specialize in SW listening on the older radios - I remember
checking out their web pages for links on the IRCA page. Are those groups still
around?


Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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