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Shaking isfalling

Mirror

20:58 / 02.12.06

I just received quite an odd bit of spam, with the same title as this thread. Here's the contents of the message:

Anyone have any ideas what this might be about?

Mistoffelees

21:09 / 02.12.06

Something like that came up in many a season of 24. Someone finds weird stuff on the net, calls Chloe O´Brien, than gets tortured and shot.

If you´re lucky you´ll survive the next 24 hours.

Mourne Kransky

23:02 / 02.12.06

Chloë is bad news that way, admittedly, but you know she would track down the spammers and terminate them for you without a qualm or a smile.

Mistoffelees

07:39 / 03.12.06

Chloe could taser me anytime. And she probably would, too.

All Acting Regiment

13:44 / 05.12.06

It is probably a message designed to make people go and look for "Tora.08" when they should be decoding the numbers. Or maybe it runs as a script if you've got a certain spyware.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:55 / 05.12.06

Looks like it's a stock scam.

Gendudehashadenough

01:10 / 15.12.06

This makes me afeared. I mean I know it's possible to hack someone's email, subsequently using it for all manner of spammy randomness, but honestly, I'm not idiotic enough to open the attachments. So, why are these being sent to me? I suspect that it's someone who knows exactly what they are doing yet doesn't want to cause any damage, that I would know of.

Why would someone hijack my email, then send an email to someone using the same domain (service), who doesn't exist, causing the email to be returned to me as an undeliverable email?

Penis/loan/scholarship/my-good-rich-but-needg-friend from Costa Rica spam I can handle, but now I start to recognize that access to my, supposedly secure (at least that's what the curators tell me...) personal email is anything but. MMMMM. Fastmail.

StarWhisper

17:45 / 16.12.06

Shaking is falling

Shaking is falling

It sounds so nice. It sounds amazing.

Shaking is falling

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:28 / 16.12.06

Aliens, dude, nobody has hijacked your email. Spammers use special email programmes which allow them to enter whatever address they want in the "sender" box. It's called email spoofing. They haven't hacked into your email, just changed their name to make it look like the email came from your domain. If you look at the headers, you can easily see where the email really came from.

Dead Megatron

19:57 / 16.12.06

but no so easily make them stop.

Though, spammers are getting more (or should I say, slightly not so little) creative lately. I haven't received an "enlarge your penis" spam in weeks...

Jake, Colossus of Clout

18:45 / 20.01.07

"Now I am tella you the story how i was treated at your hotella. I am comma from Palermo as an engineer to Atyrau and stay as a younga man at your hotella. When I comma in my room I see is no shit on my bed. How can I sleep with no shit on my bed?! I call down the recepcione and tella: "I wanna shit". They tell me "Go to the toilet". I say "No, no I wanna shit in my bed". They say "you betta not shit in your bed, you sonnawabitch". What is a sonnawabitch?!"

My spam is often much more entertaining than the lame forwards my relatives send me.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:02 / 20.01.07

But it's funny! Look, that little foreign chap talks differently and it causes a humorous misunderstanding!

Jake, Colossus of Clout

19:28 / 20.01.07

It didn't even occur to me that it was anything other than garbled nonsense.

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