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[SPAM] Hmm.. can't tell whether it's spam or not.
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Boot


Joined: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 30
Location: northern virginia

 		[SPAM] Hmm.. can't tell whether it's spam or not.
I was looking through emails, and I found this, seemingly spam, mesage.

Quote:
Hello friend,

I am currently looking for business partner that will allow
me share my pool of earnings without any upfront cost to my
partner(you). This program caters to all who make a living
on the net regardless of whatever marketing experience or
established online business you have.

The nature of this program converted a lot of my passive
visitors to paying customers and worked so well that even
the most skeptic person I knew personally sent me a very
sweet testimonial and thanking me for introducing the
program. Isn't that great?

I am so confident that when you finally see this program,
you will immediately confess to yourself that this program
is a surefire winner. This is no scam, M-L-M, or any ponzi
pyramid schemes you know out there. I am in a hurry right
now at the time of this writing so I can't go into detail.

Please do me a favor, Just send an email to...

bizinfoSPLATispbonanza.com.ph

with the details below:

Subject: im interested

Message Body:
- Your Full Name
- Email Address
- Alternate Email Address
- Country

so I can contact you when I get back. Remember not to pass
this up to your friends yet until you have decided not to
take advantage of my offer.

Please reply ASAP.


regards,
Ba Chang

P.S. I'm also offering an informative, interesting and
helpful weekly newsletter to you whether you are already
starting an online business or not. This newsletter will
even make you aware about the things that threatens your
presence online and I believe it is nice to think you'd be
informed ahead so you take the necessary countermeasures.

If you decide to ask for more information about this
business opportunity, you will automatically be subscribed
in my newsletter. Should you decide to opt.out, you can
always click the unsubscribe link provided in my newsletter.


REMO.VAL INSTRUCTIONS:

Send an email to panglabaySPLATispbonanza.com.ph with "REM0.VE" in
the subject line to be remo.ved from our mailing list.

DWRILFFWCQQPPRGFJJNJPDFUHKSGPYZWFFVEWW


Now, it seems like this is spam, but I don't want to miss an ARG when there's a chance!
Also, I'm afraid to reply, because it might BE spam, and then I'd just be signing up for a spam mailing list.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:39 pm
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Ciaran_H
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Joined: 11 Nov 2004
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Location: England, UK

 		Well, from what they say about mailing lists, and the fact that they deliberately separate the word 'remove', etc. to get past spam filters, I'd say it was spam myself. Well-written spam, for sure, but still spam.

That's how I see it, myself.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:26 pm
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hkdl
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: Hamilton, OH

 		Looks like spam to me

PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:28 pm
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Hati
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Location: Deepest Darkest AR

 		Yep. Its spam, looks almost like a nigerian letter.

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Rezz
Boot


Joined: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 30
Location: northern virginia
Ciaran_H wrote:
Well, from what they say about mailing lists, and the fact that they deliberately separate the word 'remove', etc. to get past spam filters, I'd say it was spam myself. Well-written spam, for sure, but still spam.

That's how I see it, myself.

True, but what's that bit at the end? It may just be to get past spam filters, but man does this E-Mail look suspicious.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:09 am
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Ciaran_H
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 		Heh. Well, I'm not stopping anybody to try and decode it. But I'm certain that it's just gibberish for spam filters. I mean, there aren't even any spaces.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:40 am
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Rezz
Boot


Joined: 30 Sep 2004
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Location: northern virginia
Ciaran_H wrote:
Heh. Well, I'm not stopping anybody to try and decode it. But I'm certain that it's just gibberish for spam filters. I mean, there aren't even any spaces.

Yeah. It's probably just spam. I'm just insane like that!

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Ciaran_H
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 		Sorry... didn't mean to offend if I did. Sad

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Rezz
Boot


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Ciaran_H wrote:
Sorry... didn't mean to offend if I did. Sad

Not at all. Don't worry about it.

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DreamOfTheRood
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 		I think we all tend to be a little suspicious with our emails.
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Kilroy

Joined: 29 Dec 2004
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 		Ba Chang spam
It's definitely spam. I received the same exact email (except for the gibberish at the end; mine was TEFXHZFWXTZSMDOBORKTIJUBKBIIKEUXHUNUNK)

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