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

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

I mentioned that one yesterday.  The only thing we can't tell is exactly when that was posted.  Wonder what a scouser is?

John Hunter <jshunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All, I'd be willing to pitch in a little if someone could find out
if he is legit....
Seems like he has enough money to buy a radio though if he can afford
to go to Liverpool UK just to meet members of an MSN chat group.
See http://www.scouser.com/book/guest.htm then search for
Shadow-Tiger in the guestbook....

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Shadow-Tiger
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Great Site. Will be coming to LIverpool next August 5th to meet a load of

'chatters' from our MSN Group chat room. We are all looking forward to it

immensely! I was referred to your web site by a sweet young lady in

Liverpool. Again, Great Site...& get those cartoon back up Bill! ;-)





At 09:44 PM 5/22/2006, you wrote:
>--- Charles A & Leonor L Taylor 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
>Check out the IRCA web site at http://www.ircaonline.org
>
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