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[Gregoriev]

[Barilio]

Hey people i got this weird email too:O maybe somebody can help me with it?
first she send me this:
> From: KrissySPLATemaillove.netTo: brianwennerSPLAThotmail.comDate: Wed, 12> Nov 2008 11:47:35 -0600Subject: I loved Your Profile!!
> I found your profile and I loved it we should chat more I feel we
> have a lot in common email me back!!!

and i send:
> hi, Krissy
> what profile R u talking about?
> > gr. Jozua

then i got this message yesterday,


Hi my new friendIm glad to see that you have decided to reply,I see it is very short letter.It is all right because you are astonished to get my letter.I want you to know that I have only good intentions and I have not any secrets.The thing is that I will work in your country for three months or so andI would like to meet a nice man to fall in love or just be closest friends. I don't want to live in Russia because I have not any chances here,it is hardly possible to explain from first time but I want you to know my plans.I will work in any shop, bar or restaurant the agency that i am going through will suggest me some locations.It will be my choice in the end as to what option to go for.So I will have a simple work till I improve my English. And I can choose anytown of your area,agency will only help me to get a visa and all travel documents + some suggested placed to work in.My best friend last year met the man from the USA when she worked there for three months, too. She had two jobs. From morning till 4 pm she worked in amusement park and after it she worked as a waitress in some bar till midnight. She was very tired of course but made very good money there. It is special programm for young people who wants to work abroad and I think it is the right way for me ,I am lost here,and I think that I look pretty enough to find a better place .I want to repeat the same way,it isonly my chance to meet a nice man.I want to work in USA or in Europe or anynice country. I am full of plans and different dreams and I want to share mylife with good man because I'm also full of love and tenderness,I know thatI am not so beautiful like Hollywood Princess but I do hope to meet my Prince andI am sure he will be not be disappoined to meet me in the real life! This is why I am going to go through the same way.Well,I will close this letter and I do hope to get your reply.I will leave russia in two weeks or so (I can't tell you everything exactlyright now) and I would like tobe sure that I have the man who waits for me there. I will work all day and I want to find a man to spend all free timetogether to get to know each other better.if you have any interest to meet me I will be more than happy to meet you too.I will tell you all details about me and my life if you like my pictures andwant to meet me! please send picture of you too!!!I wrote to you from e-mail of my friend krissySPLATemaillove.net, now I have created personal e-mailWrite only on this e-mail sladkayaSPLATservicesmail.infoI will wait your next letter. Kiss you , Daria (this is my name)!

she , it or he have also sended me foto's i dont know if this is Real? or is it fake can somebody help me with this?
thnk you

[Trillian]

@Barilio
Forget it and don't answer!! That's just scam. Just google for some of the sentences in your mail, you'll get many and more hits. Here's just one example (different names, same text.): http://www.stop-scammers.com/letter.asp?id=4417 .

[teh_lisa]

I just got this email:

Greetings,

You are receiving this email because I have noticed your activity in what is known as the Alternate Reality Gaming Community.

I am a senior law enforcement official and I have been watching with great awe the problem solving abilities of the group mind that occurs during an "ARG". After watching several of these games play out, an idea occurred to me: would it be possible to use those abilities in my line of work? After some thought I quickly realized that I could never share the information that you would need to help in any sort of official manner. So I have decided to run this "off the books" experiment.

Attached to this email are coding directions to my blog, there you will find a post with more details and instructions on how to contact me if you are interested. Share this email with other members of your community that may be interested in joining the cause. I have great faith that together we can make a difference.

The Detective
----

It comes from Jason Fish chief.detective08SPLATgmail.com

Attached is the image

[teh_lisa]

p.s. i have no clue where to start. It is a crazy barcode like from a personalized postage stamp, no?

[waitress#2]

I received it too. The letter sounds like Fish really is a police detective but the .png is titled trailhead so I don't know. I know there is a way to decipher that image but I don't know/remember how.

[teh_lisa]

We need a datamatrix code reader but I can't find one anywhere.

[Tresbien]

It's a QR Code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code I had a link to a decoder but it's not working.

[ifihadahifi]

I got the email as well. I'll try and look into a decoder in my free time this morning. Hopefully this ends up leading somewhere cool.

[Tresbien]

It decodes to:

[ifihadahifi]

Doh, you just beat me to it! Good job.

I sent in my info, so now we wait and see what happens.

[teh_lisa]

Can you share how you did that? I want to learn too please!!!

[ifihadahifi]

Sorry about that. I ran the picture through a program found at http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx which gave us the string of numbers. Running that through the DEC/CHAR decoder at http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ we got the actual URL of the blog. Two very handy tools to have around.

[thebruce]

My favourite QR/DM/bar decoder: bcTester