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Re: Drinkme

**Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:17 pm

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Kristofski · Greenhorn Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 9

Looks like we can rule this out, I added the hotmail address to messenger, and talked to the guy for a bit. it seems he's an italian guy who got sent the message and thought it was interesting, so he sent it to a load of addresses he found on a search engine. And he changed the "from" address so he wouldn't get a load of bounced emails.
F*ing wierdo...

**Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:32 pm

MageSteff

**Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:40 pm

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oodoov_ecniv · Boot Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 15

Here's an odd one I got today. Since it has that massive base64 section, you'll have to copy/paste to read it. Aparently the base64 is susposed to be a GIF or something, but I couldn't get it to do anything before or after I ran it through decryption. I delt with something similar to this a few years ago when a virus would take the captions of images on google images and dump them into an email and send it out to the host's address book. Scared the crap out of the lady that was receiving them.

Good luck and much appreciated.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:34 pm

xoxo_pr0ud · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 164

Yeah. Got this a couple days ago. I figured it was spam but seriously. What kind of idiot would fall for this if it is spam? Confused

**Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 12:28 am

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**Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 1:11 am

curiouswife

This is a common one - called a 419 after the Nigerian law it breaks! If you want to be useful you can set up a hotmail account and 'play' with these people - they're usually so thick that any sort of reply (even rude) keeps them occupied and keeps them away from geniune innocents who might get caught out.

The websites about the scams are fun to read as well!

**Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 10:28 am

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jjmfdl · Decorated Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 179

Strange E-mail

**Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 6:22 pm

ALISDAIRPARK

It's a 419 scam.

**Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 6:24 pm

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jjmfdl · Decorated Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 179

Thanks thats what i thought at first(that it was a scam) but i wasn't sure again thanks

**Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 6:32 pm

Phaedra

A better place for this would have been the thread, in this forum, titled "Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?," where you would have seen several other examples of this sort.

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**Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 6:34 pm

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**Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 2:58 am

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TheDuke · Greenhorn Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 4

Got a strange email, and I'm pretty sure it some kind of spam, but I hate to give up the small chance that it's not. No words, just this picture: http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/myflashstuff/blot.gif

**Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 6:43 pm

SirQuady · Unfettered Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 576

Umm, for me it just says "This image is hosted by Anglefire"

**Posted:** Fri May 05, 2006 10:26 pm

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TheDuke · Greenhorn Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 4

Yeah...that's no good, sorry about that

I attached it to this post

by the way, if it matters, the subject is "tankard dissipate"

**Posted:** Sat May 06, 2006 4:19 pm