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[Lysithea]

To put any fears at rest, yes I do have up-to-date antivirus software. Normally I wouldn't open a strange attachment, but this email was in my Hotmail account, and apparently hotmail automatically displays any jpg attachments after the body of the email. Yes, I did check the source to verify this. Hotmail currently claims to scan all attachments with a Trend Micro product.

Given that I have already opened the email, a hi-res photo of a passport smells more like ARG rather than spam.

[Puppy_Zwolle]

The .za extention is South Afrika (Zuid Afrika).
So seems the pasport to be.

[Lysithea]

Ok, so I sent a short ambiguous message back saying I'd received the original email, and asking if I could help. Shortly afterwards I received two nearly identical emails, this time with a huge bitmap of the passport with the address and next of kin details filled in. One from the original address, and another from "Bess Rossouw". However the messages refer to someone called Cheryl.

[schapin]

Ann Griffin

[djlilia]

I received this from an unknown e-mail don't know what it means:

[skenmy]

A friend received a very similar email. Very spooky actually...

From: nglw2apSPLATtidepool.com
Subject: window

Message Body:

[Varin]

Do I smell an ARG?

I just received a similar email to the above too to my gmail address which I only use for ARG related things....

From: wxxms95nckuxSPLATanet.net
Subject: appearance
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:26:48 -0600


telling

EDIT: were the others sent to gmail accounts too?

[djlilia]

Mine was sent to my gmail account though its weird because i don't usually use that account for ARGs.

[Dorkmaster]

Lysithea,

In regards to your emails received, I would delete all of it from your PC. My thinking is that this is one of two things:

1) a Legitimate ARG thing - in which case, you're going to be fine, as the thing is documented here for all of us to work with.

2) More than a dangerous scam - Let's say this isn't an ARG. Then you have two choices now... it's either a real passport image or not. If it's not, then I'd worry about the purposes of this image beyonda simple mistake. (especially sent twice...) If it IS a real passport, then I'd be concerned if say, someone died or escaped, or what have you using that passport, because now you could be officially linked to this, by having the information on your computer, ya know? I know it's unbelievably small in terms of possibility, but I'd still delete it and peek over my shoulders for a couple weeks to be sure.

[Femme Fetal]

Concering those mails, how about those odd ones I got on gmail?
My freinds out a link to a somewhat scary thing from a .hack place..and well, after a few mins, the music started all staticy and the bg went inverted. then, they left a contact info. So I replyd to it, thinking, oh, whats the harm. Now it says I have to check here before nov 30 or some thing will happen.
To quote: "Tonight, it begins again. Find the Truth - Andrew's time is almost up. " Anyone have any Idea about this? It even gave me a link to another one of the .hack things, this time, the person was describing fate, and someone was also talking...

[thunderclap8]

out of curiosity I called the phone number on the passport through skype. It goes straight to voice mail, with a male voice saying something I couldn't make out at the start.

[follow your heart]

Color me stupid, but how is it that you guys are so lucky as to get these little email gems?

[Phaedra]

[follow your heart]

Ah. Well that makes sense.

[James Blond]