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brighn
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response 25 of 79:
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Apr 11 20:32 UTC 2002 |
#22> Which is why we need to find a way to cost these spammers something.
Maybe we could start spamming them. >=}
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flem
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response 26 of 79:
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Apr 12 14:04 UTC 2002 |
re 23: Yes. I hate it. I can't stand the sweet, sweet pleasure of idleness.
Really. I mean it. Why are you backing away?
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gull
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response 27 of 79:
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Apr 12 15:13 UTC 2002 |
Re #25: I'm of the opinion it should be as illegal as junk faxes are,
and for the same reason.
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bhelliom
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response 28 of 79:
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Apr 12 16:09 UTC 2002 |
Re# 26. I swear everyone in the office thinks I'm crazy after laughing
at that. I should probably install some sort of noise filtration
system so that others aren't bothered by my laughter.
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keesan
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response 29 of 79:
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Apr 13 01:13 UTC 2002 |
I have started getting imitation Nigeria spams from other countries in Africa.
This one has not bothered with a spell checker.
What I found interesting is that there seems to be free email geared
towards idiots like this - do they really get $5000 commission on every
sucker? (See the very end).
FROM Abba Johnson
Email:abba_john1@hickorymail.com
Dear Sir,
I am pleased to get across to you a very urgent and
profitable business proposal.I got your contact
through the lome Directorate of commerce and industry
here in lome Togo,in West Africa during my search for
a credible reliable overseas business partner.
I am the Administrative
Manager of ASSITANCE SECURITY & FINANCE COMPANY in
LOME-TOGO.The nature of the business is thus,We had a
very rich customer a foreigner infact a lebanese
resident in LOME-TOGO,he was a producer and an
exporter,based here in lome-togo.
He operates his business within the West Africa
sub-region and middle east,He deposited two big Trunk
Box with my company containing the sum of USD22.5
Million(Twenty two million five hundred thousand
dollars)about six years ago.Unfortunately the man died
fouryears ago in an ambush attack cross fire in the
sierra leonian civil war as confirmed via reliable
source.
Until today non of his next of kin has come forward to
claim the trunk Box containing the money despite our
intensive advertisement in the media both locally and
internationally for his next of kin to come forward
and claim his estate.Now having noticed this I in
collaboration with the operations Manager have covered
up this deposit all while to avoid the money going
into the Goverments treasury as unclaimed deposit.
Now we want you being a foreigner to be front as his
next of kin and forward particulars and other relevant
documents to be advised to you by us to attest to the
claim.we will use our positions to get all internal
documents to back the claims,every document to effect
this process will be in accordance with our companys
regulations and guide lines.
The whole procedures will last only (10)working days
to get the Box containing the money USD22.5M Dollars
retrieved successfully without trace even in future
As soon as I hear from you by indicating your intrest
I will furnish you with the whole procedures to ensure
that the deal is successfully concluded.25 % percent
will be for you as foreign partner, while 10% percent
goes for any expences we might encounter in the
process.Trusting to hear from you soonest.
Thanks for your understanding.
yours sincerely
Abba Johnson
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CONSUMERS KNOW YOUR BUSINESS. PARTICIPATE IN THE MARKETING PROCESS, WE
WILL SHARE WITH YOU THE REVENUE. AND GET $5000 WITHIN FEW WEEKS.
THIS IS WHAT THE WEBSITE WWW.VIBINDEX.COM PROVIDES
_____________________________________________________________ Run a small
business? Then you need professional email like you@yourbiz.com from
Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net?tag
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keesan
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response 30 of 79:
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Apr 18 19:39 UTC 2002 |
Another one of these - do they look this ridiculous to email programs
other than pine? It was sent as html only. I clipped off the beginning
html tag so it would not display as such to backtalk users - was that
necessary? The person inventing this one must have used some program that
inserted two words at a time. But why into nearly every word, not just
the subject line? Do spam filters look for words in the message body,
including things like 'week' and 'expected' or did someone simply overdo
it by mistake?
<b><br>St<!--This-->oc<!--is the-->k Expect<!--beginning-->ed to So<!--of
the-->ar</br><br>
Powder River Basin Gas Co<!--we think-->rp. (OT<!--end of-->CB<!--the
world-->B:PRVB)</br><br></b>
Ma<!--Mary had-->jor New<!--a little-->slet<!--lamb-->ter Ann<!--its
fleece-->ouncem<!--was white-->ents and Huge New<!--as snow-->sletter
Cover<!--and everywhere-->age for PRVB<br><br>
This we<!--that mary-->ek, PRVB will be prof<!--went the-->iled by some major
new<!--lamb was-->sletters<br> along with the release of sign<!--sure
to-->ificant news regarding incr<!--go-->eased<br> reve<!--it followed-->nues
for the Comp<!--her to-->any. There will be huge vo<!--school one-->lume, and
a <br> strong increase in price for several days. These are the same<br>
newsle<!--day which-->tters that profi<!--was against-->led NVEI two weeks ago.
They brought<br> NVEI from $.68 to $1.79 in ten days. We know for certain
that<br> the same groups are going to profi<!--the rules-->le PRVB this
week.<br><br>
We are ve<!--humpty-->ry proud that we can sha<!--dumpty-->re this information
with yo<!--sat-->u so<br> that you may part<!--on a wall-->icipate alongside
the many other Newslet<!--humpty-->ter<br> subs<!--dumpty-->cribers that
recie<!--had a-->ve this inform<!--great-->ation. It is highly advisa<!--fall
all-->ble<br> to take a pos<!--the kings-->ition in PRVB as soon as
po<!--horses-->ssible, today before the<br> ma<!--and all-->rket closes, or
to<!--the kings-->morrow.<br><br> [lots more of this, omitted]
<b>Goo<!--fiddle-->d Luck, and watch PRV<!--the dog-->B fly!</b> </html>
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gull
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response 31 of 79:
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Apr 18 20:15 UTC 2002 |
I don't think people who use Pine are part of their target audience.
People who are savvy enough to use a command-line email program are
probably not statistically likely to buy stuff based on spam. Also,
some of the recent versions of pine can be configured to render HTML
email readably.
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scott
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response 32 of 79:
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Apr 18 20:43 UTC 2002 |
Try ignorning the bits between the < and > signs, and you get something like
this:
Stock Expected to Soar!
The inline comments are supposed to fool spam filters, but be ignored by the
HTML email client.
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keesan
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response 33 of 79:
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Apr 19 01:11 UTC 2002 |
But who would filter out all the words that have <> in them, such as tomorrow?
This one is a total puzzle to me, could it be some sort of worm? It came with
four lines of bad English about trying a game. I reported it as spam to
verizon.com and to abuse@alphasys.com.sg, whence I got back an automated
message saying they would never see my email.
From johntan@alphasys.com.sg Thu Apr 18 21:08:23 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:01:30 -0500
From: johntan <johntan@alphasys.com.sg>
To: keesan@cyberspace.org
Subject: A very excite game
[Part 1, Text/HTML 6 lines]
[Unable to print this part]
[Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "install.exe") 0 bytes]
[Unable to print this part]
[Part 4, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "MailList") 1.2KB]
[Unable to print this part]
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scott
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response 34 of 79:
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Apr 19 03:21 UTC 2002 |
I think that's a virus.
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keesan
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response 35 of 79:
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Apr 19 16:00 UTC 2002 |
A friend sent me a warning of a new version of KLEZ - is it that?
The last three copies of KLEZ were removed before they reached me by some
helpful place along the path. MailList sounds like a worm.
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gull
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response 36 of 79:
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Apr 19 18:00 UTC 2002 |
Yes, there's a new version of Klez. It's supposed to be a major pain to
remove. It uses random subject lines but the basic infection vector is still
the same.
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keesan
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response 37 of 79:
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Apr 19 21:26 UTC 2002 |
The February version came to me in three flavors of subject line.
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gull
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response 38 of 79:
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Apr 21 02:12 UTC 2002 |
This one has about a dozen it uses randomly.
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polygon
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response 39 of 79:
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Apr 25 12:53 UTC 2002 |
Just a note to say that I am receiving an increasing number of the
"Klez" virus (officially W32/Klez.B or something like that). It has an
attachment of about 100k. I think it might even run automatically in
Outlook without having to open the attachment.
Klez picks up random pieces of text as subject lines, and even finds
a random name and email for the "From:" line. In other words, if
your name and email address appears in a file in an infected computer,
Klez is likely to generate email that appears to be from YOU even
though your machine is not infected.
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gull
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response 40 of 79:
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Apr 25 13:42 UTC 2002 |
It'll only run automatically in Outlook if you haven't installed the
security updates, BTW.
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morwen
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response 41 of 79:
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Apr 25 15:07 UTC 2002 |
Swell. Just wheat I needed to hear. Think I may have picked this up.
How do you get rid of it?
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polygon
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response 42 of 79:
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Apr 25 18:50 UTC 2002 |
Go to www.symantec.com and search for "klez". Unfortunately, removing it
is very complicated.
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gelinas
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response 43 of 79:
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Apr 27 03:37 UTC 2002 |
Or buy a Mac.
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rcurl
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response 44 of 79:
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Apr 27 04:58 UTC 2002 |
Here is something "distantly related". I've been pretty annoyed by the
growing prevalence of pop-up and banner ads, etc, on the web. I heard
of pop-up suppressors so, after a little investigation, found a
utility (and proxy server for your computer) called WebWasher, which
filters out such junk. WebWasher is free for private use and is available
for both PC and Mac platforms, and IE, Netscape, and some other clients.
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tsty
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response 45 of 79:
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Apr 27 07:10 UTC 2002 |
yeh, mac is the answer .. opr linux
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keesan
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response 46 of 79:
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Apr 27 14:36 UTC 2002 |
Registered users of Arachne (for DOS or LINUX) get banner ads removed
automatically. Users of Lynx never see them in the first place.
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rcurl
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response 47 of 79:
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Apr 27 17:01 UTC 2002 |
You don't get graphics, which can be what one is looking for, either.
In two days of limited web use WebWasher has flushed 170 pop-up or
banner images, windows and scripts. It is hard to believe how much
junk I had to actively ignore before.
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keesan
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response 48 of 79:
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Apr 27 18:15 UTC 2002 |
With Lynx for DOS on my own computer I can get any graphics I want by just
going to that link and hitting the Enter key. I do not hit the Enter key at
links with the word Ad in them. Lynx users at grex can view graphics by going
to the desired link, hitting D for download, and following instructions (and
shelling out of their comm program to use a small image viewer then shelling
back).
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jmsaul
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response 49 of 79:
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Apr 27 18:59 UTC 2002 |
I bet that makes it easy to use image maps.
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