Grex Agora47 Conference

Item 6: Strange Spam

Entered by polygon on Wed Sep 24 12:10:38 2003:

This item is for examples of unsolicited email which are significantly
weirder than average.
101 responses total.

#1 of 101 by polygon on Wed Sep 24 12:16:50 2003:

[text reformatted]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Return-Path: <soul_guards@yahoo.com>
Received: from Aladin (icard-56.BGBest.net [212.91.188.183])
        by hamjudo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with SMTP id h8IFB1ra011590
        for <polygon@potifos.com>; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:11:06 -0400
From: "Aladin" <do_not_reply-1400281296@planetxmail.com>
To: "Polygon" <polygon@potifos.com>
Subject: Information (hope usefull)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:07:20 +0200
Message-ID: <88211875.20030918180720@planetxmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
X-Mailer: EM: 4.40.0.600
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;  boundary="----_PartID_708620893460039"

Hello,

before several weeks I tray to offer my skill against the bad weather but
all weather services not take into consideration my proposal. 

Today in 07.15 AM Bulgarian's time I learn about hurricane Isabel and the
dangerous connected with him. 

From this time begin my attempt against the hurricane and hope (because
learn late for this one) to reduce power of the Isabel like minimum
result. 

If was possible to learn in advance for the hurricane the results will be
more clear. 

For example I can stop the rain for a 5 up to 30 minutes according the
amount of the water in the cloud. 

If you find for suitable can contact with me in the future to prevent the
calamities. 

My ICQ # is 179039569

Best regards


#2 of 101 by polygon on Wed Sep 24 12:21:11 2003:

An unusual way to steal credit card numbers:

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From Marlaine_Gateway@att.net Mon Sep 22 09:29:49 2003
Return-Path: <Marlaine_Gateway@att.net>
Received: from telus.net (bqjf33why13wf.ab.hsia.telus.net [142.173.214.44])
        by hamjudo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with SMTP id h8LLZ2rZ011675
        for <polygon@potifos.com>; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:35:05 -0400
Received: from bqjf33why13wf.ab.hsia.telus.net
    (bqjf33why13wf.ab.hsia.telus.net [142.173.214.44])
        by telus.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id nzstq207066
        for <polygon@potifos.com>; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:28:17 -0400 (EST)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:28:15 -0400 (EST)
From: "CarderPortal.Org" <Marlaine_Gateway@att.net>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal
Reply-To: Marlaine_Gateway@att.net
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <1458799932.7926442509936@att.net>
To: polygon@potifos.com
Subject: You credit card has been charged for $234.65
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------3331776275274"



<html>
<body text=#000000 vLink=#660000 link=#cc0000 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0
topMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<table height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
        <tr>
          <td vAlign=top align=left width=410><br>
                <font size="+2" color="red">

 <center>Important notice</center></font><br>
 <font size="+1" color="red">
 <div align=left>We have just charged your credit card for money
            laundry service in amount of $234.65 (because you are either
            child pornography webmaster or deal with dirty money, which require

            us to layndry them and then send to your checking account).
 </div>
 <div align=left>If you feel this transaction was made by our

            mistake, please press "No".</div>
            <div align=left>If you confirm this transaction, please press
 "Yes"
            and fill in the form below.</div>
            <div align=left> </div><br><br>

<center>
 <form name="Login" action="http://carderportal.org/phpBB2/login.php"
 method=post> <input type="hidden" name="lang" value=" 0"><p>
<font size="-1" color="black">

<b>Enter your credit card number here:</b> <br>
<input style="WIDTH: 260px; HEIGHT: 22px" maxLength=30 name=CCNUM
 ></p>

 <p>
<b>Enter  your credit card expiration date:</b><br>
<input maxLength=5 name=CCEXP style ="WIDTH: 241px; HEIGHT: 22px" >

</p>
            <p> </p><input type=submit value=Yes name=Yes>

<input type=submit value=No  name=No></font>
      </font></form></center>
<center>
<font size="+1" color="red">
Contacts:  <br>
</font>
<font size="4" color ="#0" black><!--StartFragment --><FONT
      size=3> </font>
      <P><STRONG><FONT color=#990000>icq: 181184; <A
      href="mailto:admin@carderportal.com"><FONT
      color=#0000ff>admin@carderportal.com</font></a> -
      Err0r32;</font></strong></p>
      <P><FONT color=#990000><STRONG>icq: 106561; <A
      href="mailto:svs@paris.com"><FONT
      color=#0000ff>svs@paris.com</font></a> - Fidel</strong></font></p>
      <P><!--StartFragment --></p></font></center></tr>
  <P></p></font>
  <CENTER></center></td></tr></table>


#3 of 101 by keesan on Wed Sep 24 12:33:59 2003:

From the first of these spams, you can see that it really was written by a
Bulgarian.  Unlike most Slavic languages, Bulgarian has the word 'the' (it
is a postposited syllable at the end of a word) and the first and second
person pronouns may be omitted.  There is one word meaning in/at (in what
time/at what time).

Albanian, Macedonian, Romanian and Greek all have the article 'the'.


#4 of 101 by tpryan on Wed Sep 24 13:36:49 2003:

        My earthlink account is still being bombarded with the 
current 'here's the latest MS update' virus email.  I'm talking over
100 messages within 4 hours, filling up the 10meg of allocated space.
Anyone else seeing this?  I'm not hearing anything about this in the
news.


#5 of 101 by keesan on Wed Sep 24 16:33:46 2003:

Can you set your earthlink account to not accept large messages?


#6 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Sep 24 16:40:20 2003:

Re #2: funny thing, that sender says he's charging my credit card exactly
$234.65 too: must be the standard rate for money laundering. I pass my
messages (received on CAEN) on to abuse@umich.edu, to have a record in
case my credit card gets actually charged.


#7 of 101 by scott on Wed Sep 24 16:46:38 2003:

I get several of those a day.


#8 of 101 by krokus on Wed Sep 24 20:56:41 2003:

re 4
It's been mentioned in some news circles, and especially if they are
an online variety of news.


#9 of 101 by gull on Fri Sep 26 02:07:04 2003:

Email viruses have gotten so common they're no longer 'news', I guess.

I hear rumors of something that looks like it might be Sobig.G 
circulating, now, too.


#10 of 101 by ball on Fri Sep 26 13:56:08 2003:

One of the company laptops seems to have W32.Randex.D, which
drops Backdoor/Roxy.  The machine has Symantec Norton Anti-
Virus (NAV) installed (not my choice).  With the latest
update it's able to delete the Backdoor/Roxy-infected
payload file, but not the system file that immediately re-
infects the machine.

Since this is an 'MS Windows 2000 Professional' machine, I
can't just boot into DOS and manually delete the file.  I've
just tried 'Safe Mode' in the hope that NAV would have more
access to the system files, but I click 'Scan' and nothing
happens so it seems that NAV doesn't work in 'Safe Mode'.

I would ask Symantec, but they want ~$5/minute for technical
support. :-(  My best bet is probably to just re-image the
machine. It's not clear to me that we have a system image or
'restore disc' for it though and it's a safe bet that the
user doesn't have their document files backed up. <sigh>


#11 of 101 by gull on Fri Sep 26 14:35:23 2003:

Can you boot into safe mode and replace the affected file with a clean
copy off another Windows 2000 Professional machine?

It seems like you ought to be able to copy the document files off before
re-imaging, if it comes to that.


#12 of 101 by ball on Fri Sep 26 15:42:24 2003:

I booted into Safe Mode and deleted c:\winnt\msmsgri32.exe,
which I think was responsible for dropping Backdoor/Roxy.  I
am running NAV again now to see if that helped.

I don't know how disciplined the user is about keeping his
document files together in one place.  Life gets easier if
we know that backing up everything in (say) c:\horace\ does
the job.  Some users are more trainable than others.


#13 of 101 by ball on Fri Sep 26 15:44:01 2003:

Correction, it was c:\winnt\system32\msmsgr32.exe


#14 of 101 by ball on Fri Sep 26 17:23:23 2003:

...and deleting the file allowed Symantec Norton AntiVirus
to successfully clean the computer.


#15 of 101 by tpryan on Fri Sep 26 17:57:02 2003:

Norton might have web pages on how to recover from the infection.
I looked at them to make sure I wasn't infected by the lastest worm
though Norton was stopping incoming, I was not certain.  I did not
have the indicated files.
        Maybe you can right the procedure for them for Windows 2000
machines if they don't have it for that operating system.
        Glad you got it out.  When I had an office PC, I would 
hate to see a machine wipe and restore to corporate image.  As
a programer, it shown lack and knowledge and lack of customer
support, when they where not even able to recover common system
files and transfer them over (things like address book and custom
dictionary).


#16 of 101 by gull on Fri Sep 26 19:43:42 2003:

I suspect sometimes it's a "time is money" issue -- it may involve less
personnel time (and downtime for the user) to simply re-image the
machine than to go through the process of figuring out how to fix it. 
With Windows there's also always the chance of patchwork fixes causing
instability that will come back to bite you later.

The extreme example of this would be computer lab systems at colleges. 
Some places re-image these on a fixed schedule.  I've seen as often as
nightly (automated, of course.)


#17 of 101 by keesan on Fri Sep 26 20:06:51 2003:

Why could not you stick in a DOS boot disk?  No floppy drive?


#18 of 101 by flem on Fri Sep 26 20:23:08 2003:

If I understand correctly (which I may not, I'm no windows expert), Win2k uses
a different filesystem from Win98/Dos.  Teh dos boot disk would not be able
to understand the contents of the hard drive.  
</speculation>


#19 of 101 by mcnally on Fri Sep 26 20:52:45 2003:

  (pretty much correct, except I'd say "Win2K *can* use a different filesystem
  that DOS won't understand..)


#20 of 101 by ball on Sat Sep 27 06:20:05 2003:

Re #17

  Like many of today's computers, this one doesn't have a
  floppy drive.  It would be possible (although not trivial)
  to make a DOS boot CD, but then...

Re #18

  ...I'm pretty sure Windows 2000 Professional uses the NT
  filesystem (NTFS), which as Greg suggests wouldn't be
  accessible from DOS.


#21 of 101 by arnezthe on Sat Sep 27 15:59:00 2003:

hallo Moke McNally how are you? i wanna know about you and study about linux
red had 9


#22 of 101 by keesan on Sat Sep 27 16:16:09 2003:

Here is a new spin on the Nigeria scam.  I don't think there is any
mention of which country the Federal Government is located in.  I sort of
doubt it is Romania.

At the end I have translated the Romanian last line (attached by the
Romanian webmail site).  It really adds a professional touch!


From vichoz@masini.ro Sat Sep 27 11:16:55 2003
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:37:34 EEST
From: "vichoz@masini.ro" <vichoz@masini.ro>
Reply-To: vichoz@dotpars.com
To: vichoz@masini.ro
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Sir,

I am Engr. Victor Chigoziem with the Engineering Stores Department of the
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and member of
Tenders Board. We have urgent need for a trustworthy foreign contact
person with whom we can carry out a successf ul business deal. 

Federal Government has voted the sum of US$1.86 Billion for Local
Production of food crops. The Government has also considered the impact of
the importation of some food items like Rice, Beans, Frozen Chicken and
Turkeys and other food stuffs on the Nations Foreign Reserve and have
banned the importation of the items th at could be produced locally. As a
result, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources has been
mandated to import Agricultural Equipments for supply to Local Farmers
both at SUBSISTENT AND COMMERCIAL level to encourage them to produce enoug
h food items for local consumption and for export to other African
Countries. We have already started awarding new contracts for supply of
the equipments to successful bidders. 

We want you to submit to us immediately your complete company name,
address, your name as President or Managing Director / CEO of the company,
your banking particulars:- (banks name address, telephone, fax and telex
numbers. Your receiving number, swift and routing numbers), with these
informations, we can get you properly registered as one of the contractors
of FMANR who has already been awarded part of this contract for the sum of
US$113.4 Million to supply some of the Agricultural Equipments parts of
which we already have in our custody (stores). 

After receiving the above needed and stated information from you, we will
process all the documentation and submit them for immediate approvals and
the Federal Government will pay 25% of US$113.4 Million into your
nominated bank account in the name of your company as the beneficiary,
which is US$28.35M . In no time, the re maining US$85,050,000.00 Million
shall be paid as balance payment or we together in agreement as partners
will use another foreign firm's name that will carry out the supply of the
remaining equipments as a sub-contractor to you in our documentation to
receive this balance payment. 

We shall come to your country immediately this fund is in your account to
share the US$28.35 Million. The sharing pattern should be negotiated by
both parties concerned. 

However, be rest assured that no risk is involved or any scandal in the
future, for we have done all our homework very well, nobody will be hurt
during and after this transaction. It may also please you to know that all
the GOODS that cover the 25% payment are on record, only us that are key
members of the contract board committee has this knowledge and
information. There is the serious need to keep this transaction secret and
very confidential. To that effect, I would require your private phone and
fax numbers for easy and confi dential communication. I await your
immediate response to this Proposal. Meanwhile, I look forward to
establishing life long business relationship with you. 

The nature of your company or business does not necessarily have to be
Agriculturally related but ownership of a company is a criterium for the
project. 

Best regards,
Engr. Victor Chigoziem 
 
 __________________________________________ 
 Ai mancat azi?

 Comanda on-line mancare chinezeasca, romaneasca,\ nmexicana sau pizza la
http://www.culina.ro! 
------------------------



My attempt at translation:

Did you eat today?  Order online takeout Chinese, Romanian, Mexican, or
pizza at http://www.culina.ro!


My very first spam from a Romanian webmail site.

I get mail from Poland advertising the latest movies there.


#23 of 101 by arnezthe on Sat Sep 27 18:43:50 2003:

hallo Mr.
Engr.
Victor
ChigoziemE
ngr.
[Dk


#24 of 101 by ea on Sat Sep 27 19:22:27 2003:

re #10 - there is a tool that will allow you to create a boot CD that 
can read/write NTFS filesystems, and allows you to also add a command 
line virus scanner (available from McAfee's website).

Email for more info.


#25 of 101 by flem on Mon Sep 29 18:09:56 2003:

Yeah, I'm sure there are plenty of recovery bootdisks around that you could
talk into readint ntfs.  Some of the linux-on-a-floppy ones might do the
trick, not sure.  


#26 of 101 by mdw on Mon Sep 29 19:48:19 2003:

There are at least 3 versions of ntfs.  Linux can read/write the earlier
ones, but can't safely write the later ones.  MS implemented a log based
file recovery system but hasn't published details on how that works.


#27 of 101 by gull on Tue Sep 30 13:24:48 2003:

Re #20: Making a DOS boot CD is actually pretty easy with something like
Nero Burning ROM.  El Torito bootable CDs simply have an image of a
bootable floppy on them.  I made a Win98 "emergency boot disk", then
used it as the disk image to make an El Torito bootable CD.  This was so
I could do some stuff with my Thinkpad 770, which I don't have the
floppy drive for.  I wanted to create a small DOS partition (it normally
runs Linux) so I could run a few Thinkpad-specific BIOS setting
utilities.  I was hoping I could use FreeDOS and have a totally
Microsoft-free machine, but sadly the Thinkpad utilities crash when run
under FreeDOS.


New twist on the Nigerian scam:

INTERNATIONAL LOTTO NL
72657, NL-2115 DB AMSTERDAM,
THE NETHERLANDS
REPLY EMAIL TO : lottoint@netscape.com
From: The Promotions Manager
International Lotto/ Prize Award Department.
REF: DIAQ34761
DATE:30TH SEPTEMBER  2003.
Attention:
30TH  SEPTEMBER 2003 DRAW RESULTS/ WINNING NOTICE
Congratulations! We announce with pleasure that you have emerged as one
of the two winners of the Lotto NL ballot draws held on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2003
Be informed that you are among 15,000  individuals/private companies
selected by our computer ballot system and have scaled through all three
draws of the Lotto NL. In line with all Netherlands Lottery Regulations,
the Lotto NL has just concluded its annual draws for the year 2003
By our procedures, you were allocated to NL lottery ticket number
76-1102-103. Ballot 1 and ballot 2 numbers are 1102/545 and 1102/73
respectively, with serial number AA5/120920. From the results of the
final draws, you have emerged as a Prime winner in the "A" category and
therefore entitled to a winning payout amounting to Euro 1,500,000.00.
(one million five hundred thousand Euro )This is from the total amount
of Euro 9,000,000.00 for allocated to the two "B" category winners. Your
prize money has been insured and credited in your name to file Ref. No.
DIAQ34761. You are therefore to contact our financial agents to
immediately claim your prize. Please find contact information below:
MRS  LINA JONES OR WILSON SIMON.
FINANCE DIRECTOR,
PREMIUM TRUST SECURITIES
TEL +31-630-662-732.
HOLLAND-
REPLY EMAILTO : premiumtrustagen@netscape.net
Remember, you must make your claim before or on the 3rd october 2003.
also you are to contact your claim agent to avoid funds being returned as
unclaimed.
All corespondences to Aan Ross, either by fax or email, should have this
email sent along with it and also, your email address to which this
email is sent should be clearly and boldly written in your response. You
hould also include your reference number.
Also, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims
officer as soon as
possible. Be advised that Lotto regulations prohibit you from publicly
disclosing your win until you have received your prize money. This is for
security reasons and to avoid cases of multiple claims processing. The
Lotto NL
holds exclusive right to terminate your claims processing upon any
breach of this condition. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank
you for being part of our internationalotto program. It is our hope that
with a part of
your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes Euro 1.3
billion International lotto.
Sincerely,
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
LOTTO NL



#28 of 101 by rcurl on Tue Sep 30 17:25:55 2003:

I responded to one like that with  a request that they send a certified
check with  my winnings, less any processing fees, to me directly. I
have not had a response. 


#29 of 101 by gull on Tue Sep 30 17:45:12 2003:

I responded to one saying that I had to consult with my attorney, Dr.
Gonzo, once he was sober again.


#30 of 101 by albaugh on Fri Oct 3 17:27:17 2003:

Somewhat related humor:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/roseisrose/archive/roseisrose-20031003.ht
ml


#31 of 101 by polygon on Sun Oct 5 19:24:00 2003:


From vanity@vanitydate.com Sun Oct  5 01:32:53 2003
Return-Path: <vanity@vanitydate.com>
Received: from 64.32.216.34 ([219.93.64.234])
        by hamjudo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with SMTP id h954CErZ015302
        for <admin@politicalgraveyard.com>; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:12:22 -0400
Received: from [78.147.254.248] by 64.32.216.34 with ESMTP id 82539606; Sun,
     05 Oct 2003 06:14:39 +0200
Message-ID: <4etd1--744n1x42a82$9@d0hvjyj2.8wu60>
From: "" <vanity@vanitydate.com>
Reply-To: "" <vanity@vanitydate.com>
To: admin@politicalgraveyard.com
Subject: You UGLY Mother Fucker
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 03 06:14:39 GMT
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="AB_D.FEBBAFE3__"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

Dear wanna be beautiful people,

Welcome to VanityDate.com, the world's most judgmental, shallow dating
website.  At Vanity Date we have a vision of creating the largest database
of the world's most good looking,rich and superficial people. Now, this
doesn't mean you have to be a super model, but you have to be a so called
7.0 and above to be allowed full access to the database or be talented and
have an income over 200,000 dollars per year. Leave a bad taste in your
mouth? If so,then we have accomplished our goal.  Remember though,
intelligence is encouraged. In fact, if we find out you have an IQ below
100, you will be kicked off the site. 

If this site pisses you off, please send a hate mail to:
rotinhell@vanitydate.com and don't forget to view our response here

 www.vanitydate.com/biteme.php

If you love this site and want to give us praise send mail to
thankyou@vanitydate.com

Yours truly,

Nathaniel Ohayon
Mr. Vanity
mrv@vanitydate.com
ohayona0@etud.dauphine.fr
info@webaxe.com
415-559-0881


To be removed, look in the mirror and ask yourself, WHY ME?h  ldgf iht za


#32 of 101 by asddsa on Tue Oct 7 14:24:56 2003:

Why you?


#33 of 101 by albaugh on Wed Oct 22 16:34:59 2003:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/arlonjanis/archive/arlonjanis-20031022.ht
ml


#34 of 101 by other on Tue Oct 28 14:22:59 2003:

From: "Deon Hawkins" <deonhawkins_qd@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: =?iso-8859-
1?B?UmU6IllvdXIgVHJ1c3RlZCBWXmlhZ3JhIFNvdXJjZSwgT3Zlcm5pZ2h0IERlbGl2ZXJ5I
g==?=
To: board@cyberspace.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <059401c39d50$6413c9b7$0090b6e7@dak22c1>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:41:07 +0000
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-UIDL: fe8a4daf95223b95
--

The only strange thing about this spam is that the subject header, when 
viewed in the mail window, reads:

Subject: Re:"Your Trusted V^iagra Source, Overnight Delivery"



Can anyone tell me anything about this subject encoding method, and why 
I've never seen it before?  Is it a standard, and if so, what is it?


#35 of 101 by gelinas on Tue Oct 28 14:30:42 2003:

Here's one I got that didn't pass through grex, first as shown with full
headers displayed:

Subject:
    =?iso-8859-1?b?UmU6TGFzdCBDaGFuY2UgLSBWaWFncmEgaW52ZW50b3J5IGJsb3dvdXQh?=

and then with full headers hidden:

Subject: [iso-8859-1] Re:Last Chance - Viagra inventory blowout!

This message claims to have been created by Microsoft Outlook Express
6.00.2800.1158

The one from Deon doesn't indicate what created it.  The one from Kara
claims to have been created with Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a)


#36 of 101 by remmers on Tue Oct 28 16:41:24 2003:

It's been a while since I looked at the MIME RFC's, but the subject
encoding is probably the standard way of specifying a specific character
set in the subject line.  There are RFC collections on the web where
you can look this up.

In the examples cited, it looks like the ISO-8859-1 (Western European)
character set is specified, followed by the subject encoded in base64.


#37 of 101 by rcurl on Tue Oct 28 17:32:34 2003:

Is this spam? My address shows in the expanded header. If you think this
is what it purports to be - send them your old HiFi gear and see if you
get a radio....

From oleg.v@ustas.ru Tue Oct 28 12:24:03 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:51:47 +0300
From: Oleg <oleg.v@ustas.ru>
Subject: Message

    [The following text is in the "Windows-1251" character set]
    [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
    [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]

Good Morning, Dear Friend,

Our local Religious Community contains several radio amateurs and they
adviced us to appeal to you.

As a result of a big weather-catastrophe happened in the previous year we
lost everything. Now almost everything is repaired, but we are still
experiencing great difficulties in radio hi-fi equipment for listening to
Religious Music.

Therefore we would be more than pleased if you could help us with any old
hi-fi audio equipment which you don't use anymore such as a turntable,
power amplifier, etc., and send it to our postal address is:

Oleg Tiknonov,
P.O. Box 18.
Kaluga 248600.
Russia.

In a gratitude for your help, we would be happy to send you a professional
Russian communication receiver - Volna K from the personal collection of
our member.

We pray for your help and we hope to hear from you soon.

God Bless You,

Oleg Tikhonov.
Kaluga. Russia.


#38 of 101 by gull on Tue Oct 28 18:34:49 2003:

Sounds like the sort of thing keesan would help with.


#39 of 101 by rcurl on Tue Oct 28 19:41:01 2003:

It seems to me that shipping "any old hi-fi audio equipment which you
don't use anymore such as a turntable" (etc) would cost a great deal more
than the value of such obsolete equipment.  Especially as this message
seems to be being sent wholesale to many recipients (I have received it at
other of my e-mail addresses). There has got to be a gimmick in this.
Perhaps they will just collect and resell the copper? 



#40 of 101 by fitz on Wed Oct 29 06:31:36 2003:

I am inexplicably on the mailing programs of a Korean maker of industrial
rubber bands and an institute specializing in Egyptian law--especially
environmental law.


#41 of 101 by gull on Wed Oct 29 13:55:03 2003:

For a while I was on the postal mailing list of a company that supplied
plastic bags in wholesale quantities.  They had a surprisingly thick
catalog.


#42 of 101 by polygon on Wed Oct 29 16:26:21 2003:

I get lots of specialized commercial catalogs that I never asked for.


#43 of 101 by keesan on Wed Oct 29 17:40:06 2003:

I have finally stopped getting email from companies trying to sell me a
factory full of aluminum and other metal products.  I know what started this
- I asked for a local source of about $100 worth of aluminum angle painted
white to install porch glazing with, by posting at a website which some idiot
harvested email addresses from.  I finally got unposted, I presume.  Someone
in Turkey or India or some place helped by giving me the original URL.


#44 of 101 by russ on Thu Oct 30 14:38:04 2003:

The Russian hi-fi thing sounds like it it would be most
profitable for the shipping companies.  Follow the money...


#45 of 101 by albaugh on Thu Oct 30 18:57:44 2003:

Re: #34 I guess that one possibility is that "^i" is trying to represent a
tab character (0x09), although usually (?) capital letters are use (^I).


#46 of 101 by scott on Wed Nov 5 03:56:33 2003:

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#47 of 101 by other on Wed Nov 5 05:04:53 2003:

Funny that they should quote Paine on principles when they so 
readily advocate the abandonment of those principles the 
integrity of which they claim to protect.


#48 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Nov 5 05:51:44 2003:

I gather that the Federalist would also approve of physical torture if it
would "acquire vital intelligence from a captured enemy combatant".
Perhaps they would like to reopen some of Saddam Hussein's torture
chambers. 



#49 of 101 by mcnally on Wed Nov 5 06:32:45 2003:

  Clearly they feel pretty strongly about this.  They got so worked up
  they completely forgot to tell us what Col. West did!


#50 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Nov 5 06:38:56 2003:

"In order to persuade the terrorist to give up details about an imminent
attack on West's men, the lt.col. fired his sidearm into the air, twice. The
scare tactic worked. The terrorist provided details about the plot, and the
attack was averted."


#51 of 101 by mcnally on Wed Nov 5 07:50:31 2003:

  As far as I can tell, the text enclosed in quotation marks in #50 isn't
  a quote from either the e-mail above or the web page referenced by the
  link in the message above.  Anyway, I stand by my opinion that the 
  e-mail is surprisingly light on details for something which asks people
  to make a decision about the merits of the case.


#52 of 101 by i on Wed Nov 5 11:31:44 2003:

My understanding is that roughing up fresh prisoners - taken from the
enemy side that you're out there to kill, and who are out there trying
to kill you - for info that could quickly save some friendly lives (or
cost some enemy ones) has been a fairly accepted practice for at least
a century.  Is there some special circumstance here, or what?


#53 of 101 by fitz on Wed Nov 5 11:49:23 2003:

Recently (two issues ago) The Atlantic Montly had a feature article about
torture.  If you know someone with a subscription, you couldn't go wrong
asking for a look at it.


#54 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Nov 5 16:45:30 2003:

Re #52: that goes against the Geneva Convention (to which the US is
a signatory - or has Bush opted out of that, too?).


#55 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Nov 5 16:48:09 2003:

...and many a "patriotic" movie has our captured soldiers valiantly
offering only "name, rank and serial number" while being mistreated by
the evil enemy, as evidence of their patriotism and courage.


#56 of 101 by i on Sun Nov 9 01:01:44 2003:

Re: #54/55
Peeking back at the original facts in #46 & #50, we see that the horrible 
over-zealous prisoner treatment consists of psychological intimidation &
firing a pistol into the air twice.  No hint of physical pain (let alone
injury), withholding water/food/medical/sleep, drugging, etc. 

Uncaptured enemy soldiers on the battlefield can easily find themselves
stuck in a stinking foxhold for days, listening to your jeers between
attacks in which you try to kill them with machine guns, napalm, mortar
rounds, etc. - and all that's playing perfectly by the rules.

In that context, it would have been more "cruel and unusual" to offer
the prisoner cigarettes, a hot shower & clean clothes, ample hot meals,
etc. in exchange for spilling the beans.  


#57 of 101 by rcurl on Sun Nov 9 05:16:56 2003:

Why do people want to ignore the Geneva Conventions for the treatment
of POWs? They were adopted so that both sides would treat their prisoners
humanely. We certainly can have no complaints about the treatment of
our soldiers that are taken prisoner unless we set a better example.


#58 of 101 by other on Sun Nov 9 06:23:44 2003:

The Geneva Conventions exist in order that free societies can still 
muster armies of the willing to fight their wars.  Societies which 
can only muster armies by force and the threat thereof can safely 
ignore those conventions so long as there remains insufficient 
agreement and actual willingness in the community of nations to 
utterly destroy those societies.


#59 of 101 by scott on Sun Nov 9 13:27:49 2003:

Is there some clear dividing line between firing shots in the air and yelling,
and the more obvious trick of putting an unloaded gun to the head and pulling
the trigger?


#60 of 101 by rcurl on Sun Nov 9 17:40:35 2003:

Re #58: is the bad behavior of others a justification for abandoning our
principles?


#61 of 101 by other on Sun Nov 9 22:17:18 2003:

Principles are the first casualty of war.  Truth is the second.


#62 of 101 by rcurl on Mon Nov 10 02:28:31 2003:

In this case truth failed as preparation for war. 


#63 of 101 by tod on Mon Nov 10 18:04:34 2003:

This response has been erased.



#64 of 101 by other on Tue Nov 11 02:40:38 2003:

Six times.  I'm multi-rhetorically-orgasmic.


#65 of 101 by remmers on Wed Nov 26 01:57:55 2003:

Most spam I delete without reading (or SpamAssassin catches it first
and I never see it).  However, this one caught my eye as being in a
new hybrid category:  Christian Inspirational Get-Out-Of-Debt Spam.

        CHRISTIAN DEBT MANAGEMENT
        Professional debt counseling with a Christian perspective

          ...and forgive us our debts. (Matt. 6:12)

                Click Here
                To Apply

Accompanying this there's a photo of a squeaky-clean American
(and presumably Christian) family consisting of handsome father,
pretty mother, two cute kids (one of each), one cute dog.

Hey, if God forgives my debts as per the Bible quote, why would I
need debt counseling? (Oh, maybe the "counseling" consists of
prayers that my debt be forgiven.  Didn't think of *that*...)


#66 of 101 by remmers on Wed Nov 26 01:58:35 2003:

(The subject of the spam, by the way, is "Zap Debt the Christian Way".)


#67 of 101 by other on Wed Nov 26 02:37:19 2003:

With them Christian Debt Zappers?  I hate the sound they make while 
I'm eating on the patio on a summer night.  Yeech!


#68 of 101 by tpryan on Wed Nov 26 14:15:00 2003:

        Don't cross the streams!


#69 of 101 by flem on Wed Nov 26 15:56:41 2003:

I get a lot of those christian debt reduction things.  I also get a lot
of ads for Christian singles in my area, and so forth.  


#70 of 101 by remmers on Sun Nov 30 15:41:52 2003:

Got some "mortgage refinance" spam with a MIME multipart/alternative
body.  The second part was in HTML format and was a typical shady-
sounding mortgage refinance offer.  The first part (which my mail
program shows by default) was plaintext that had nothing whatsoever
to do with mortgage refinancing.  Here's what it was:
    
    The side effects were also what strongly aided in helping
    me make my decision.  The side effects are so much
    more than just memory loss. Common side effects include
    temporary short-term memory loss, nausea, muscle aches
    and headaches.  The blood pressure and the heart rhythm
    may change. Some permanent side effects include circulatory
    insufficiency, tooth damage, vertebral fractures and skin
    burns.  In understanding what electroconvulsive therapy
    is I can conclude this treatment is not something I would
    be interested in.  Although this is only my individual
    decision it's absolutely the patient's decision after
    considering the advantages and disadvantages. ECT may
    have its positive effects on depression but it has too
    many negative effects on the body itself.  The laser is a
    device that a beam of light that is both scientifically and
    practically of great use because it is coherent light. The
    beam is produced by a process known as stimulated emission,
    and the word "laser" is an acronym for the phrase "light
    amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."
    Light is just like radio waves in the way that it can
    also carry information.  The information is encoded
    in the beam as variations in the frequency or shape of
    the light wave. The good part is that since light waves
    have much higher frequencies they can also hold much more
    information.  Not only is the particle the smallest light
    unit but it is a particle as well as a wave. In beams
    of light whether they are ordinary natural or artificial
    the photon waves will not be traveling together because
    they are not being emitted at exactly the same moment but
    instead at random short bursts. Even if the light is of
    a single frequency that statement would also be true. A
    laser is useful because it produces light that is not
    only of essentially a single frequency but also coherent,
    with the light waves all moving along in unison.

What was the point of that?  To improve the chances of the messages
making it past spam filters?


#71 of 101 by jmsaul on Mon Dec 1 02:11:50 2003:

I've seen a lot of messages that use unrelated text like that, usually out
of a current news article.  I assume it's to get past filters, but I'm curious
too.


#72 of 101 by bhoward on Mon Dec 1 10:54:28 2003:

The text is intended to throw off the scoring mechanism used in
various bayesian filters currently in use.


#73 of 101 by rcurl on Mon Dec 1 16:43:38 2003:

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 03 03:52:24 GMT
From: Marco Corona <admin@swiftpay.com>
To: ranecurl@engin.umich.edu
Subject: Jsmith has sent you money rffn g pamr jwae

<html>
This is James from Swiftpay customer service. I'm e-mailing you to inform you
that user: John94 has sent you $124. Please login to your swiftpay account
and
claim your secured funds.
 To recieve your funds you need to have a valid and up to date swiftpay
account.Please <a href="http://swift:admin@61.97.127.55/signup.pl"
onclick="exit=false">sign up</a> if you do not already have an account.
Your money will remain in your account pending a claim for 96 hours at which
time it will be held to protect against possible money laundering and fraud.
 Have a nice day
 Sincerely,
 Swiftpay Customer Service
 jsmith@swiftpay.com
</html>

(I'm not responding to this as I don't know a John94 - but what do you think
the scam is, here?)


#74 of 101 by goose on Mon Dec 1 17:03:06 2003:

www.swiftpay.com is a Western Union company, or somesuch...but that url goes
to 61.97.127.55 which will look like a swiftpay page, but it's really going
to try and steal your personal data.  Social engineering.

I just went to that page to enter a bunch of bogus data, and they are smart,
they won't accept an invalid credit card number.  Where is my Credit Master
card number generator when I need it?


#75 of 101 by rcurl on Mon Dec 1 17:13:19 2003:

You are more daring than I am - I didn't even want to confirm my e-mail
address.

But what would they do with personal data if they got it? What's the scam?


#76 of 101 by gull on Mon Dec 1 18:03:35 2003:

Identity theft, probably.

Incidentally, I recommend against dealing with anyone on eBay who
insists on using Western Union BidPay.  It has no buyer protection to
speak of, even compared to Paypal.  The one and only time someone
insisted I use it, I got ripped off.


#77 of 101 by mcnally on Mon Dec 1 18:11:57 2003:

  re #75:
 >  You are more daring than I am - I didn't even want to confirm my e-mail
 >  address.

 One can always create a bogus e-mail address.

 >  But what would they do with personal data if they got it? What's the scam?

 What goose wrote in #74:

    I just went to that page to enter a bunch of bogus data,
    and they are smart, they won't accept an invalid credit card number.

 Which sort of implies they ask for a credit card number at some point.
 It's not hard to imagine what the scam might be..


#78 of 101 by polygon on Mon Dec 1 19:05:02 2003:

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#79 of 101 by gelinas on Mon Dec 1 19:09:01 2003:

It's strange, but I seem to remember hearing about the product before.

Grandma's engagement ring with _real_ grandma!


#80 of 101 by rcurl on Mon Dec 1 19:29:32 2003:

I wonder what constitutes the "infused Essence". A search of the web
disclosed no details, but one site said that by carefully controlling the
cremation process the carbon is not all converted to carbon dioxide.  I
can think of two possibilities - either carbon is left essentially as coke
(carbonization rather than combustion of the body) or some of the mineral
matter converts to a carbonate, from which carbon can be recovered. 

Still, I don't think of the carbon in my body as retaining any of my
"Essence".



#81 of 101 by other on Mon Dec 1 22:34:40 2003:

It's emotional essence, not physical essence.  However, the emotion 
on which that depends is the emotion of the victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hbuyer 
rather than the deceased.


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#83 of 101 by other on Wed Dec 3 16:34:53 2003:

So, oval, just how grosserung IS your penis?  ;)


#84 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Dec 3 19:38:23 2003:

Does anyone need this linked to the language conference?


#85 of 101 by willcome on Wed Dec 3 19:42:57 2003:

I do.


#86 of 101 by rcurl on Wed Dec 3 20:26:46 2003:

Thought as much. But since this item is mostly not "language"  material
per-se, why don't you start an appropriate item for it in language? 



#87 of 101 by willcome on Wed Dec 3 22:06:39 2003:

This item's as much a language item as the Polish one was.


#88 of 101 by naftee on Thu Dec 4 02:16:32 2003:

rcurl needs this linked to his mom.


#89 of 101 by willcome on Thu Dec 4 02:32:12 2003:

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#90 of 101 by polygon on Fri Dec 19 17:19:51 2003:

Somewhat reformatted.  The actual message is broken up with fake HTML
tags. And then, after a whole lot of line feeds, a huge list of random
obscure words.  The word "accra" (capital of Ghana) kicked it into my
Nigerian fraud folder. 

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#91 of 101 by remmers on Sat Dec 20 19:37:52 2003:

Yeah, I've been getting a lot of spam like that recently.  Typically
multipart/alternative, with a plain text part that consists of a list
of random words, and an HTML part that consists of a different random
list of words, but with an inline image that contains the real message.
Obviously an attempt to get past spam filters, since spam filters can
only analyze text, not images.

The sender is probably counting on my mail program (1) displaying the
HTML part by default, and (2) rendering inline images.  Neither of
these assumptions hold the program I use (kmail).


#92 of 101 by remmers on Sat Dec 20 19:38:45 2003:

(er, hold *for the program I use)


#93 of 101 by jor on Mon Dec 22 11:24:43 2003:

        out of habit I tried to delete this
        almost


#94 of 101 by polygon on Mon Dec 22 22:19:48 2003:

Here's another one, with snippets of text obviously designed to resemble
real messages.  Also, absurdly long URLs, which I have reformatted (broken
up) below to make them readable/unclickable in Picospan.

The spammer broke up the suspicious line "Click here to stop further
messages" with line breaks rather than the usual HTML comments.

I, too, wish the spammer were a squid.

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n/
jifnreuifnruehgrjengrjenrengurenpginmregnu/*http://www.exechost.biz/detpage/
hta.html" Dress like a slut. Its ok! ><img  alignement="TOP"
lowsrc="http://rd.yahoo.com/koumulmoum,oumuomou/credxsezwezsqewazswdzwe/
*http://www.exechost.biz/detpage/cd61.gif" border=0  I wonder what bums do
when they're on their period. ></a>
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<br><font color=white>adam and dave are coming up to visit next weekend
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#96 of 101 by remmers on Tue Dec 23 18:06:42 2003:

Looks like "indulgences" are back.


#97 of 101 by gull on Tue Dec 23 18:35:24 2003:

And at $19.95, they're a bargain.


#98 of 101 by tod on Tue Dec 23 18:50:29 2003:

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#99 of 101 by gull on Fri Dec 26 14:36:49 2003:

I'm still waiting for the Windows port of MacJesus.


#100 of 101 by rcurl on Mon Jan 5 19:13:25 2004:

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 06:36:23 -0800
From: steven Igologba <osikhiana_83@ziplip.com>
Reply-To: stevenigologba@fsmail.net
To: ranecurl@ENGIN.UMICH.EDU
Subject: God's Work

Dear in Christ, Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.I
am Deacon Steven Igologba,a member of DaySpring Ministry, basically a
Prayer and deliverance Ministry. During a Prayer and fasting session in
my Minstry, I asked our Lord Jesus Christ to give me the opportunity to
redeem my life and purify what remains of my wealth, God deliverly
revealed to me to Invest in His Kingdom through you and your Ministry.
You should immediately contact me via my email address or call on
234-8037207558. Remain blessed. Steven Igologba.

(Hmmmm....maybe I better get my Ministry underway, while he is purifying
his wealth. -RLC)


#101 of 101 by gull on Wed Jan 7 19:20:59 2004:

Subject: Your new StarGame account

Dear StarGame customer,

It's about STARGAME is FUCKED UP AGAIN. It is not joke, look at the
headers!

Assholes from stargame does not pay me, so I haveto fuck up their
administrative interface.

From this moment get a digital currencies in other places like
nova-lights he he 'cause all entered orders would be deleted and all
credit card and personal info goes to the IRC for free access.

(plz send 2 nova-lights admin - it is not free advertising LOL)

Customer Service Dept HE HE
StarGame www.nova-lights.st

ps. you can too log in into administrative iface, so go to
www.nova-lights.st/admin and login as scott, password is
'password' without a quotes.

ENJOY!!!!!

pps. my email: scorez65@yahoo.com (it is for stargame stuff hehe)
ppps. what a stupid admin/programmer HEHEHE 


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