probable con

donkey42 · 10-09-2008, 08:13 PM

i received this email today

Quote:

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Congrate, Your email has won
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:48:06 +0200
From: Microsoft Promotion Team <info@Microsoft.co.uk>
Reply-To: sergeyalexandra8@live.comTo: undisclosed-recipients:;

RE: Msword Email lottery 2008: 5.5 MILLION POUNDS WINNER
MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT EMAIL LOTTERY
FBI VERIFICATION NUMBER; VERMSW/088043

Do contact the Details below for further Clarifications and to Claim the Award
Sum of 5.5 Million Great British Pounds which was awarded to you in a
Personality Test Program held to Honor our Customers. Your email address
emerged as one of our winners through our Microsot Random Email Balloting
System.

Microsoft International Promotion
Alexandra Sergey
Director Microsoft Promotion Team.
Contact Email: sergeyalexandra8@live.com

Do email the above email address at once with all the claims requirements
below. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.

full Name:
Address:
Telephone:
Occupation:
Age:

To claim your award, email your Full Names and Address to:
sergeyalexandra8@live.com

Sincerely
Secretary
Aaron Honadel
Microsoft Promotion Team
Copyright (C) 1991-2008.

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with me being so paranoid,
i did nothing (except posting it here) i just wanted to warn HWFs, or am i wrong ?

thomas234 · 10-09-2008, 07:56 PM

Donkey, you've just won £5,500,000!!!!!!!

Thanks for warning us though! I don't think that an e-mail of such 'great importance' would have so many grammatical errors!!

donkey42 · 10-09-2008, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Thomas

Donkey, you've just won £5,500,000!!!!!!!

yeah, right

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomas

Thanks for warning us though!

np, just keep an eye on your inbox

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Originally Posted by Thomas

I don't think that an e-mail of such 'great importance' would have so many grammatical errors!!

me neither, but, using MS was clever

Off Topic:

remembered T

Addis · 10-09-2008, 09:55 PM

I get hundreds of these. Fortunately GMail catches 99.9% of them.

Sniper · 10-09-2008, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addis

I get hundreds of these. Fortunately GMail catches 99.9% of them.

yeh Gmail totally rocks, they eat up all the spam before you can lay your eyes on it.

thomas234 · 11-09-2008, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donkey42

Off Topic:

remembered T

*Pats Donkeys head quite patronisingly*

DaRuSsIaMaN · 11-09-2008, 07:05 AM

"Probable" con? Hah, dead-certain con.

For some reason, my yahoo account gets completely deluged by these. I get like 5 or more different varieties of these per day. The spam catcher in yahoo is decent but not the greatest, so still have to delete one or two usually.

I don't get it. How did my address become such a target for these stupid things. It happened very suddenly, too. One time I got a single one of those, from an African politician or whatever (lol). So to screw around, I replied to the email with something abusive. I put something like STFU and something else -- I don't remember -- in there. I thought it was funny. And then the next day, all these email cons started coming. Several of them per day, like I said. And they've never stopped since. Geez...

Did the person at the other end who received my reply decide to do that to me because of my reply??

Swansen · 11-09-2008, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaRuSsIaMaN

"Probable" con? Hah, dead-certain con.

For some reason, my yahoo account gets completely deluged by these. I get like 5 or more different varieties of these per day. The spam catcher in yahoo is decent but not the greatest, so still have to delete one or two usually.

I don't get it. How did my address become such a target for these stupid things. It happened very suddenly, too. One time I got a single one of those, from an African politician or whatever (lol). So to screw around, I replied to the email with something abusive. I put something like STFU and something else -- I don't remember -- in there. I thought it was funny. And then the next day, all these email cons started coming. Several of them per day, like I said. And they've never stopped since. Geez...

Did the person at the other end who received my reply decide to do that to me because of my reply??

tracking your internet activity???

donkey42 · 11-09-2008, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DRman

"Probable" con? Hah, dead-certain con

i was trying to be polite

Off Topic:

for a change

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomas

*Pats Donkeys head quite patronisingly*

can i have a spank please ?

Off Topic:

pwease pwease pwease

thomas234 · 11-09-2008, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donkey42

[/ot]can i have a spank please ?

Off Topic:

pwease pwease pwease

Hmmm I don't know... you'd have to be really bad, like spelling colour 'color', metre 'meter'

... that really annoys me!!

Or call me Tom, that's also annoying

thomas234 · 11-09-2008, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaRuSsIaMaN

"Probable" con? Hah, dead-certain con.

For some reason, my yahoo account gets completely deluged by these. I get like 5 or more different varieties of these per day. The spam catcher in yahoo is decent but not the greatest, so still have to delete one or two usually.

I don't get it. How did my address become such a target for these stupid things. It happened very suddenly, too. One time I got a single one of those, from an African politician or whatever (lol). So to screw around, I replied to the email with something abusive. I put something like STFU and something else -- I don't remember -- in there. I thought it was funny. And then the next day, all these email cons started coming. Several of them per day, like I said. And they've never stopped since. Geez...

Did the person at the other end who received my reply decide to do that to me because of my reply??

I think when you reply to spam, it confirms that it's a real address, and your email addy gets added to lists or something. Can't remember where I read it

donkey42 · 11-09-2008, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomas

Hmmm I don't know... you'd have to be really bad, like spelling colour 'color', metre 'meter'

... that really annoys me!!

Or call me Tom, that's also annoying

ok, how about binary

Quote:

01101111 01101011 00101100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01101101 01101101 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00101100 00100000 01101001 00100000 01101111 01101110 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100001 01101110 01101011 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01000010 01010100 01010111 00111010 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110011 01101111 01100100

or Hex

Quote:

6f 6b 2c 20 54 6f 6d 6d 79 20 63 6f 75 6c 64 20 79 6f 75 20 70 6c 65 61 73 65 2c 20 69 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 77 61 6e 74 20 61 20 6c 69 74 74 6c 65 20 73 70 61 6e 6b 0d 0a 0d 0a 42 54 57 3a 20 79 6f 75 20 72 6f 74 74 6f 6e 20 73 6f 64

or Base 64

Quote:

b2ssIFRvbW15IGNvdWxkIHlvdSBwbGVhc2UsIGkgb25seSB3YW 50IGEgbGl0dGxlIHNwYW5rDQoNCkJUVzogeW91IHJvdHRvbiBz b2Q=

Edit: i can also do decimal or quote various checksums etc.

thomas234 · 11-09-2008, 08:29 PM

Off Topic:

Sssssssssssssssssssssssspank!

</Worlds Weirdest Post>

donkey42 · 11-09-2008, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomas

Off Topic:

Sssssssssssssssssssssssspank!

ooooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr

thanking you big style

BTW: if it didn't make sense, check here

Edit: see, its fun to be stupid

thomas234 · 11-09-2008, 08:46 PM

I'd made sense of it thanks

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DaRuSsIaMaN Geek Comrade Join Date: Nov 2003 Age: 22 Male Posts: 754 Times Helpful: 12 Status: Offline My Computer	"Probable" con? Hah, dead-certain con. For some reason, my yahoo account gets completely deluged by these. I get like 5 or more different varieties of these per day. The spam catcher in yahoo is decent but not the greatest, so still have to delete one or two usually. I don't get it. How did my address become such a target for these stupid things. It happened very suddenly, too. One time I got a single one of those, from an African politician or whatever (lol). So to screw around, I replied to the email with something abusive. I put something like STFU and something else -- I don't remember -- in there. I thought it was funny. And then the next day, all these email cons started coming. Several of them per day, like I said. And they've never stopped since. Geez... Did the person at the other end who received my reply decide to do that to me because of my reply?? __________________ Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions... "So, got any kids?" - Stephen Colbert My computer is not much to brag about, but I shall do so anyway. AMD 1800+ Athlon XP..............SoundBlaster PCI 512 ASUS A7N8X..........................WD 80GB ATI Radeon 8500....................WinXP Pro

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