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djlilia

So far we've got this subjects:
window, foot, force, idea, appearance and carefully

And the messages are:
stay, goes, science, easy, telling appearance.

Anyone tried to see what those e-mails are?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:32 pm

jadex · Kilroy Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 2 Location: florida

udezny66kqdvSPLATtenforward.com

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allowed

**Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:24 pm

Phaedra

**Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:41 pm

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They are very widespread to be spam...

luqm41qqmitSPLATgus.net
"meant"

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hat

**Posted:** Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:18 pm

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novaspace · Kilroy Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 1 Location: va/fl, usa

from: bbrdh1izSPLATcastles.com
subject: science

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day

Just got this 5 hours ago and recognized the format from posts here. Strange, because I only recently created this account strictly for this board/ARGs. (Incidentally, the only ARG I've used this account to interact with is Menance-Media.)

So. Yeah. Add "day" and "science" to the list.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:46 am

Dorkmaster

I'm just curious (and I'm not trying to flamebait or anything... I'm honestly curious...) Why do we SPLAT out the email addresses of these spammers? Why would it be bad for other spammers to spam these spammers?

Wouldn't that be good? couldn't it potentially (with many iterations) slow down and increase the bandwidth costs for these ne're-do-wells?

**Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:22 am

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Well, that really depends. Personally, I think this is just some unique phishing, checking which email addresses are active and which aren't. I also think the email addresses are randomized and spoofed. Trying to flood them wouldn't really help anything as they will either bounce or cause problems for people that aren't related to the scammers at all

**Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:25 am

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**Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:53 am

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Looks like I get to add to the list as well.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:00 am

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Subject: easy
Body: surprise

**Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:22 pm

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ARGN gets a ton of these a day -- like, literally, 10 to 30.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:06 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:01 am

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Hm, I got one too. Looks like it came from Germany (62.117.5.164).

**Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:01 am

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Huh.

I'm still 99% sure this is just spam (although, admittedly, I haven't gotten it at any of my non-ARG email addresses, including my Gmail ones). I deleted them. But it does seem odd for spam -- I mean, there's no attachment, so there's not a virus or anything, and there aren't any links in it, and there's no actual information in it either, so if it is spam, what's the point?

But if it were an ARG, I'm not sure whether this would be a brilliant or stupid way to start it.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:07 am

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**Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:23 am