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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Nodwarves4u
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 		I trnslated the reply you got as well LordIll, You were right iin your assumption it is just a bounce back email.

Also Happy Birthday anonymousloli

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anonymousloli
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 		Much love to you, dear, thank you.

Also, yours seems like spam to me. It's just as choppy as Illidan's.

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Leyton Stone
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 		That kind of seems like an 'everythingisfine' style email to me.

Although the F*cktinag person could be upto their old tricks and just winding people up?
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kosmopol
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 		I've got the same spam as Illy. Perhaps it's really spam - nothing mysterious there.


And - Happy Birthday, anonymousloli Smile

PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:00 am
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thebruceModerator
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 		email from starengineeringlabsSPLATgmail.com "Star Engineering"
Subject: Messages intercepted///

Quote:
MessagEss Intercepted////
Emails found/
Send WARNING

Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv; name=seen.wmv
X-Attachment-Id: f_fedkdov00
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=seen.wmv

with the following video attachment...



YouTube: Link
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Leyton Stone
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 		Also got it Bruce...
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coffeegirl18
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 		I received the same Bruce....It was caught by my spam filter...as usual.
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LordIllidan
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 		I got it too, along with a second message:

Quote:
....- ..-. ....- ( ....- ( ....- ( ....- ( -.... ----. --... -.... -.... ----. -.... .---- -.... .---- ..--- ----- ....- -.. ..... ..... ....- ...-- -.... ...-- ....- ...--


Subject was m33555463355


Srsly, guys. How are you finding me? O_o

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thebruceModerator
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 		ight, made a thread... here
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SirQuady
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 		Now, yes, it looks like spam at first glance, but it's weird. Didn't come in my spambox, but my inbox (and i have a good spam catcher)
1. It's written in good quality grammar / english
2. With the exception of one tiny line, it's all completely correct, true, and not spam-ish
3. The email address is pupatedSPLATsteamboatvilla.com Pupated is a weird name for an email address (kinda cool though!), but www.steamboatvilla.com is a real site for some sort of resort/lodge. Also, the contact email for steamboatvilla is not @steamboatvilla.com

Quote:
From: "Wes Newton" <pupated>
Subject: InDesign CS3

Adobe CS3 Master Collection for PC or MAC includes:
+ InDesign CS3
+ Photoshop CS3
+ Illustrator CS3
+ Acrobat 8 Professional
+ Flash CS3 Professional
+ Dreamweaver CS3
+ Fireworks CS3
+ Contribute CS3
+ After Effects CS3 Professional
+ Premiere Pro CS3
+ Encore DVD CS3
+ Soundbooth CS3

+ getofficetoday . com in Internet Explorer

System Requirements

For PC:
+ Intel Pentium 4 (1.4GHz processor for DV; 3.4GHz processor for HDV), Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, (dual 2.8GHz processors for HD), or Intel Core
+ Duo (or compatible) processor; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems
+ Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
+ 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD; more RAM recommended when running multiple components
+ 38GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
+ Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
+ Microsoft DirectX compatible sound card (multichannel ASIO-compatible sound card recommended)
+ 1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit color adapter
+ DVD-ROM drive

For MAC:
+ PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor (Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore, and Soundbooth require a multicore Intel processor; Adobe OnLocation CS3 is a Windows application and may be used with Boot Camp)
+ Mac OS X v.10.4.9; Java Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server
+ 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD; more RAM recommended when running multiple components
+ 36GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
+ Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
+ Core Audio compatible sound card
+ 1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit color adapter
+ DVD-ROM drive+ DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation

Militant Fighting Spreads Across Southern Iraq

Despite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's warning Wednesday to Shiite gunmen, they continue to battle Iraqi forces in Basra and other southern cities Thursday. The Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City is also the scene of sporadic fighting.


EDIT: Nevermind, it's spam. http://spamigot.com/Spam/After_Effects_CS3_Pr__36937.html
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Leyton Stone
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 		Ok so I wake up this morning to find an email in my account 'confirming' my recent ad on gumtree.com so I'm like ok wtf?

I check it and see the following:

Quote:
You have made a posting to Gumtree.com. Thanks!

Your ad titled "Free accomidadation for fun girl" in "Room share offered: north London" will be live on the site shortly (please be patient it can take up to 4 hours).

Your ad can be viewed at: http://www.gumtree.com/cgi-bin/show_posting.pl?posting_id=22320135

Your ad will remain for 30 days.

To edit or delete your ad at anytime simply click on the "edit/delete ad" button. You will need to enter the following details to edit or delete your ad (so please save them somewhere!):

Your posting reference number is: ******

Password: ******

Good luck with your ad!

The Gumtree team

Please note: We reserve the right to refuse or delete ads that we believe are inappropriate or which breach our terms and conditions


Now gumtree.com is a real site but the thing is... *I* Didn't sign up for it. I click the link and see the ad which says:

Quote:
Reply to: leytonstoneSPLATlive.co.uk

Location: Leytonstone.

Date: Friday 4th April

Date available: 04/04

We are a shared house with 5 international guys looking for entertainment and fun. Free accomidation to the right girl. No bad intentions just fun all around. We are Australian, South African, Italian and Pakistan. Love to drink and party... Smile


And the pic I posted below is in the email.

I've tried checking it for stegs or whatnot but couldn't find anything now it could just have been someone trying to be funny on here *as this is the ONLY place I use this email* or someone trying to be malicious but I don't think so because of a couple of reasons.

1: They made sure to have the bit checked which says "Do NOT Contact me offering services or anything of a commercial nature" - If someone wanted to be malicious or stupid they would have wanted me spammed.

2: They didn't put "Leyton Stone" as the first and last name; they put an actual name (Don't know if anyone would have seen it before?) "Brendon Whalan"

But yeah that's all I got.
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Leyton Stone
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 		Ok then, guess it was just spam/a joke...
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molecularr
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 		blog comment
This is a blog comment rather than an email, but it bears the same question of whether or not it's spam so I thought I'd post it here in this thread.

This blog is one I rarely update, so it mainly attracts spam, maybe 2 or 3 per day. As such, I have it set to moderate all comments -- almost all of which are spam.

Caught this in the filter today:

Quote:
<strong>Christine Marcinkowski...</strong>

Several years ago I fell in love with the most amazing person that the universe has ever known. I forced her out of my life and this is my attempt to set right what went wrong. Please publish this link and help me locate her, for love....


The name entered for the comment was Christine Marcinkowski, and their IP address identifies it as originating from Midcontinent Media, Inc.

The URL entered by the commenter (which I presume is the link in question) is here:

http://i-love-christine-marcinkowski.netfirms.com/

The whole "help me find a missing person" sort of suggests ARG, but if so, the whole vibe feels kind of pathetic/creepy. If it's spam, I don't know what to make of it. In terms of things that this might be advertising, there's netfirms.com, where it's hosted, and http://www.powerpagematrix.com/ (home based business crap), where the contact form is originating from (it's embedded in an iframe). Also, the logo on the photos seems to refer to napkinnights.com, and there's a mention of TrekAmerica.com as well.

So what do you think? I'm leaning toward spam, but as such I still don't really get what it's selling. As such, I thought it worth posting at least.

Any thoughts?

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Myke
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 		Re: blog comment
molecularr wrote:
This is a blog comment rather than an email, but it bears the same question of whether or not it's spam so I thought I'd post it here in this thread.

This blog is one I rarely update, so it mainly attracts spam, maybe 2 or 3 per day. As such, I have it set to moderate all comments -- almost all of which are spam.

Caught this in the filter today:

Quote:
<strong>Christine Marcinkowski...</strong>

Several years ago I fell in love with the most amazing person that the universe has ever known. I forced her out of my life and this is my attempt to set right what went wrong. Please publish this link and help me locate her, for love....


The name entered for the comment was Christine Marcinkowski, and their IP address identifies it as originating from Midcontinent Media, Inc.

The URL entered by the commenter (which I presume is the link in question) is here:

http://i-love-christine-marcinkowski.netfirms.com/

The whole "help me find a missing person" sort of suggests ARG, but if so, the whole vibe feels kind of pathetic/creepy. If it's spam, I don't know what to make of it. In terms of things that this might be advertising, there's netfirms.com, where it's hosted, and http://www.powerpagematrix.com/ (home based business crap), where the contact form is originating from (it's embedded in an iframe). Also, the logo on the photos seems to refer to napkinnights.com, and there's a mention of TrekAmerica.com as well.

So what do you think? I'm leaning toward spam, but as such I still don't really get what it's selling. As such, I thought it worth posting at least.

Any thoughts?


Wow.. that is certainly interesting. I have heard of guys that posted marriage proposals on freeway billboards so I guess this is the information superhighway version.

I am not sure if I would call it SPAM and after reading the netfirms page I am a little sympathetic to the guy's cause. I think I will drop him a couple of article links just for kicks.

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 		That's... kinda... creepy.

All I can say about those pictures... If we manage to find the blonde instead, can I keep her? Smile
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