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[Myke]

[Esteed]

It's not that the guy is making some massive campaign to get one more shot at this love that's creepy. It's the fact that this love seems to border on the obsessive. Maybe there's a reason they lost touch?

If you want to go ahead and help the guy, go for it. I can get pretty sappy when the mood strikes me, so god knows I can understand where the dude is coming from, taking this one last chance at it. At the same time, I can understand why people would think it's a smidge creepy.

Not really sure what, if anything, to do with any of these pages.

[Euchre]

The form originates from and redirects back to that home business site - you can pretty much bet it's a spam trap. If this was a reputable ARG I'd expect the form to go to the same domain the page is served from at very least. I find it really odd how prominently the TrekAmerica mention is and that they'd bother to have a link to it - to 'Employment' no less. Notice also that the other form (served again from that home business site) supposedly for 'Christi' has a place for a birth date - why would you need that? That's the kind of personal info often used to validate for lost passwords on an email address - so you can expect they are trying to steal emails with that field. The only other reason you'd need to confirm someone's birth date is if you were dealing in adult content - so they don't send porn or drug info to a minor (which would make them lawbreakers). Consider the photos on the site.

It's got a slightly romantic twist, oddly stalker-ish, and just a bit titillating - doesn't that just cry out for creepy porn addicted freaks?

My advice is to stay away from it. Submit nothing.

ETA: I decided to do a whois run up the chain of powerpagematrix.com and found that it leads to contact info with email for a domain with no content ( lakotaoffice.com ), for which the whois data is pretty well faked. Why do I say it's faked? Because the Yukon Territory is not in Zimbabwe. Another thing that caught my eye was "Fr0gman Internet" in the powerpagematrix.com contact info. I did a search for that on Google, and the results are pretty much all "(insert random words/terms) FULL SCREEN PICTURES AND VIDEOS" links to URLs following the Google index poisoning format of "www.(domain name).(TLD)/(random words/terms).html - so yeah, spammalicious baby!

[Fishjp]

I received this email, I originally dismissed it as some sort of scam, but since another Email I received turned out to be a Rabbit Hole, I thought I would Share this here and see what everyone thinks:



From: charityorganizationfd7SPLATcomcast.net
[mailto:charityorganizationfd7@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Philanthropy Assistant

Dear Friend,
My name is Mrs.Dorathy Benson, I'm 65yrs old of age. I am a
resident of New York in U.S.A. A business woman, merchandiser, as i have
spent all my life on corporate investment business. Earlier this year, i
was diagnosed with lung cancer, with this condition, i find it uneasy to
survive myself, because my investments can not be run and managed
efficiently by me.In this circumstances, i have decided to help the less
privileged,orphanage those that needs help financially. If you need any
financial support don't fail to contact me back, because i am willing to
help.

If you are interested and you have the time to spare, you can assist me
in running this charity Organization either as a volunteer or for pay
as we may agree upon,You Can help me to distribute funds to orphanage
home in your community or start a philanthropy project. Do get in touch
with me as soon as you can to enable me give you more information
regarding the charity work.

Respond to me through this email address charityfoundationorgSPLATgmail.com
Your immediate responds will be appreciated.

Thank You and God Bless.
Remain Bless,
Mrs.Dorathy Benson

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Delete with extreme prejudice.
This scam has been running for three or four years that I know of.

[Esteed]

If there were some way to delete it with fire, I would advise doing this. As it is? Delete while waving lighter in front of computer. FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

[Jacks]

I got this email a little while ago, and am certain it's an ARG:

[MrToasty]

[Jacks]

Thanks!

I did some more research and it just looks "weird". By the looks of Erus_rector's lj, there's some sort of link to "phreak615" as they say he is "one of ours".

Edit: Adding the link: http://erus-rector.livejournal.com/ Slightly NSFW due to Erus Rector's avatar...

[Shutaro]

[Jacks]

ROFL...that's exactly what I got out of it, too.

[kosmopol]

After Final Mill there is new weird thing happening in Germany.
Many German bloggers recieved today a package with Motorola, razor and tooth brush.

Like this:

Source: http://www.blogwiese.de

What can it be?
The (uncomplete) list of bloggers, who recieved the package can be found at Patmo forum
http://forum.patmo.de/index.php?topic=159.0

[SirQuady]

Does that really fit under the SPAM thread? It seems to me that you might want to re-post that (or have an admin/mod move the post, actually) to a new thread so it comes to more peoples' attention.

[kosmopol]

Thank you, SirQuady!

I did it.

[SirQuady]

Sweeeeeeeeettt.