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polygon
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Strange email
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Jun 27 07:07 UTC 2003 |
This item is for posting incoming email that is out of the ordinary.
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polygon
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response 1 of 71:
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Jun 27 07:09 UTC 2003 |
This one is extremely reminiscent of the message received and posted some
time back which offered money for time travel technology, and concluded
with something like "Evil aliens, please don't reply!"
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Return-Path: <stealth@recochem.com>
Received: from host-148-244-152-186.block.alestra.net.mx
(host-200-76-178-243.block.alestra.net.mx [200.76.178.243])
by hamjudo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with SMTP id h5QA1SJ0010522
for <polygon@potifos.com>; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 06:01:29 -0400
Received: from [12.96.220.237]
by host-148-244-152-186.block.alestra.net.mx with ESMTP id
<024539-41762>;
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 01:50:14 -0200
Message-ID: <s-emf$xl-yzt-d1o$41iik@orru0>
From: "" <stealth@recochem.com>
To: <polygon@potifos.com>
Subject: DWG Needed m z
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 03 01:50:14 GMT
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_..9DC5_664EB8053D0E"
Greetings,
We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply.
I'm offering $5,000 US dollars just for referring a vender which is
(Actually RELIABLE in providing the below equipment) Contact details
of vendor required, including name and phone #. If they turn out to be
reliable in supplying the below equipment I'll immediately pay you
$5,000. We prefer to work with vendor in the Boston/New York area.
1. The mind warper generation 4 Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a
series wrist watch with z60 or better memory adapter. If in stock the
AMD Dimensional Warp Generator module containing the GRC79 induction
motor, two I80200 warp stabilizers, 256GB of SRAM, and two Analog
Devices isolinear modules, This unit also has a menu driven GUI
accessible on the front panel XID display. All in 1 units would be
great if reliable models are available
2. The special 23200 or Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor
with built in temporal displacement. Needed with complete
jumper/auxiliary system
3. A reliable crystal Ionizor with unlimited memory backup.
If your vendor turns out to be reliable, I owe you $5,000.
Email his details to me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com
Please do not reply directly back to this email as it will
only be bounced back to you.
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gelinas
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response 2 of 71:
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Jun 27 14:48 UTC 2003 |
The domain "federalfundingprogram.com" is registered to Bob White
(tomnwrr@aol.com), of Woburn, Massachusetts.
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pvn
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response 3 of 71:
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Jun 28 06:32 UTC 2003 |
pk marketing
bob white (tomnwrr@aol.com)
+1.16178778863
FAX: +1.7819328769
4 oak street
woburn, MA 01801
US
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goose
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response 4 of 71:
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Jul 11 19:55 UTC 2003 |
HE's just fishing for emails huh?
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polygon
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response 5 of 71:
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Jul 28 02:04 UTC 2003 |
Here's another version of the time travel letter, looking very spammy
indeed. I got two, with different random letters at the end of the
subject line.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Return-Path: <donald30@spiegel.de>
Received: from 100.Red-80-35-162.pooles.rima-tde.net
(100.Red-80-35-162.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.35.162.100])
by hamjudo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with SMTP id h6RBWNc5005086
for <polygon@potifos.com>; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:32:38 -0400
Received: from 2o.ejc0vp.org ([160.125.89.241])
by 100.Red-80-35-162.pooles.rima-tde.net with SMTP;
Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:27:27 -0500
Message-ID: <54ex9o4g909i$34gig$$3p@ji0tcguiu5>
From: "" <donald30@spiegel.de>
To: <polygon@potifos.com>
Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed ky ci f
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 03 14:27:27 GMT
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="80D_676_EEC96.F"
Hello,
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional
warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of
LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on
me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD
wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp
stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID
display.
I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received
certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.
In terms of payment:
I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum
gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit. Please transport unit in
either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Sunday July 27th
at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Stand Ti me. If you miss this timeframe please
email me.
42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above sea level.
Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels
through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of
communication I have right now. There is a good chance that sombody will
try to redirect the signal. The unit must be teleported directly in a way
that nobody will be able to interfere with the transference.
After unit has been sent please email me at:
info@federalfundingprogram.com with payment instructions. Do not reply
directly back to this email.
Thank You
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response 6 of 71:
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Jul 28 02:10 UTC 2003 |
DAmmit! I didn't get this until after I got home. I would have loved to use
my Omni to pop in and see what was really going on.
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rcurl
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response 7 of 71:
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Jul 28 06:47 UTC 2003 |
That location is near Woburn MA, on Village St, just off Cummings Ave.
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gelinas
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response 8 of 71:
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Jul 28 13:20 UTC 2003 |
That sounds close to the place where the guy who registered
federalfundingprogram.com lives.
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rcurl
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response 9 of 71:
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Jul 28 17:46 UTC 2003 |
The address in #3 is about 500 meters SSW of the coordinates in #5. I
wonder if the "time traveler* entered an incorrect datum into his
GPS?
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russ
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response 10 of 71:
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Jul 29 23:13 UTC 2003 |
From drnwangene1@mail.gr Tue Jul 29 01:02:13 2003
To: <deleted>
From: drnwangene1@mail.gr
Subject: URGENTANDCONFIDENTIAL
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:02:13 EET
FROM: DR TONY NWANGENE.
PHONE:(874)-762864167
FAX :(874)-762864168
(URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL)
RE: TRANSFER OF ($26,000.000.00 USD}
TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS
Dear Sir,
We want to transfer ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six million United States
Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to oversea account. I want
to ask you, If you are capable; or quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in
you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.
I am the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in South Africa,
during the course of our
auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in
1996 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again,after going
through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I
do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is SCHULTZ MULLER VORNAMEN a foreigner, a great
industrialist and he died since 1998.No other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death he
was the manager DIAMOND HOCHTIEF [pty]SA.
We will start the first transfer with Six million [$6,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any
disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the
remaining rest amount to your account.
The total amount involve is Twenty six million United States Dollars only
[$26,000.000.00]. I want to first transfer $6,000.000.00 [Six million
United States Dollar] from this money into a safe foreigners account
abroad before the rest.But I don't know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a
local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can
only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or
drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and
the former owner of the a/c is a foreigner too, and the money can only be
approved into a foreign a/c.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together when we
meet face to face after the first transfer of $6 Million before
transferring the second part of $20 Million. I am revealing this to you
with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you
are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business,
so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
urgently.
Send me full details of the account to be used for this transfer,
including your direct telephone and
fax numbers so that I will have a private/security discussion with you.I
want us to meet face to face to
build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us
together immediately after the first
transfer before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and
investments.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the
management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account,
which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will
meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved
with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will
never, never let me down.
With my influence and my position in the bank, the bank official can
transfer this money to any
foreigner's reliable account that you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country
for sharing. The bank official Will destroy all documents of transaction
immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to
build confidence.
You can call me for heart to heart discussion through my private
satellite phone which I secured for the
security and safety of this business as you know that this business is
confidential.I will use my position
and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my private email address/
nwangene_98@hotmail.com
fax or telephone.
Yours truly,
Dr. DR TONY NWANGENE.
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rcurl
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response 11 of 71:
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Jul 29 23:48 UTC 2003 |
These "Nigeria" scams are a dime for ten million.... Is there something
different about this one that I missed?
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keesan
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response 12 of 71:
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Jul 30 03:20 UTC 2003 |
This one is quite a lot more redundant than most, especially about meeting
face to face (that is when they kidnap you), and the German name is hilarious
- two common last names followed by the word for 'first name'.
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keesan
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response 13 of 71:
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Aug 6 06:31 UTC 2003 |
What on earth is this spam trying to accomplish?
Received: from mail.badese.com ([61.145.119.96]) by grex.cyberspace.org (8.6.13
/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA28311 for <keesan@grex.org>; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:00:25
-0400
Message-Id: <200308050900.FAA28311@grex.cyberspace.org>
Received: (qmail 29059 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 05:01:34 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO televises) (webmaster@211.158.91.148)
by badese.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 05:01:34 -0000
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 04:31:59 GMT
From: <kee@TOM.COM>
To: <keesan@grex.org>
Subject: accompanied
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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glenda
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response 14 of 71:
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Aug 6 11:04 UTC 2003 |
It's a very colorful ad for viagra.
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keesan
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response 15 of 71:
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Aug 6 13:38 UTC 2003 |
Why all the learned words with font colors in between?
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oval
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response 16 of 71:
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Aug 6 13:40 UTC 2003 |
because spammers are insane?
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gelinas
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response 17 of 71:
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Aug 6 14:07 UTC 2003 |
The colour "#FFFFFF" is . . . white. So the 'learned words' don't show
up, but they probably help the message get through various filters.
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dcat
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response 18 of 71:
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Aug 6 19:12 UTC 2003 |
The actual message is a GIF picture -- http://www.8867v.com/file/ra.gif,
reached through a Yahoo redirect -- and the rest is random crap that
supposedly helps it get through spam filters, coloured white so you don't
actually see it when the message comes up in Outlook or some other
image-displaying, html-understanding mailreader.
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keesan
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response 19 of 71:
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Aug 7 00:16 UTC 2003 |
Why color each word separately?
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tpryan
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response 20 of 71:
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Aug 7 01:01 UTC 2003 |
It prevents filtering on any two words together.
Any e-mail that uses deception to deliver a message will
not be paid attention to. How can we trust a self-proclaimed
deciever?
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keesan
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response 21 of 71:
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Aug 7 21:08 UTC 2003 |
Who would trust someone illegally selling drugs?
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russ
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response 22 of 71:
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Aug 7 22:34 UTC 2003 |
I expect that the spammer tactic of using bogus HTML tags and
comments to split up words so that scanners can't parse them
will fail when scanners start using these things as red flags.
Ditto high fractions of nonsense strings. Stuff like that
doesn't need to go through the Bayesian spam detectors; it
is quite distinct already.
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polygon
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response 23 of 71:
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Aug 8 16:42 UTC 2003 |
Better yet, reject all email which contains any HTML tags.
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russ
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response 24 of 71:
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Aug 9 01:55 UTC 2003 |
Unfortunately, lots of people I know use services which insist
on sending mail as HTML, and what do you do when someone sends
a URL? Much as I hate it, HTML is becoming essential to mail.
Bouncing anything with Javascript or an image load from another
site (web bug) still makes good sense, though.
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