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xero-mahanamatashi · Boot Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 19

De Greko

**Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 6:47 pm

audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

[ARG/SPAM?] You Have To Decide...

**Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 1:43 pm

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GWing_02

Ah, so I'm not the only one that got this De Greko thing and went straight to unfiction for answers. The first one set off the ARG-sense, and the second one's just unnerving. Weird stuff. No answers from me, yet, haven't even peered down the rabbit hole. Just checking if it was just me.

edit: Since it doesn't appear to have been mentioned, I'd gotten another one a coupla days ago from a Jesse Rollins with subject "high-class" and nothing but an image of the same color with the filename disparaging.gif with the following text:

**Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 7:07 pm

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Ofiuco

The DeGreko stuff and others like it are spam. I have received roughly half a a bajillion emails just like it telling me about how this or that company is rising star.

Audioslave, your stuff sounds like spam too. The reason for the 0s and periods would be to bypass a spam filter (think C!4Li$).

**Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 7:51 pm

audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

[E-MAIL] Mrs.Rita

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 1:58 pm

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Grand Theft Autumn

Thats odd... Have you replied?

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 1:59 pm

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

Sounds like more spam. Was there any other indication that this may by an ARG or just this one email?

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 2:09 pm

THX8612

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 2:11 pm

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jefftheworld · Boot Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 65

[SPAM] not a Possible ARG

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 9:46 pm

Kjartan

I think it's random words to get past spam filters -- it's mentioned on a couple sites:

http://www.bearla.com/talk/

http://www.lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?fid=342388793445b8b29764d1

It looks like someone may have spoofed your E-mail address or something so you ended up looking like the source.

--Kj

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 10:57 pm

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Grand Theft Autumn

Very odd.... Im not the master at cyphers, but could someone decode the last bit?

(If it is a cypher)

**Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 11:21 pm

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

It's spam for sure. Unless it's an ARG about spam.

The encoding is the spammy image.. and the link takes you to an enlargement site. Oh and by the way by visiting the link you confirmed your e-mail address to spammers because of the ipvl part.. you should edit your post and take the link out.

**Posted:** Sun May 14, 2006 2:22 am

Ciaran_H

As has already been said, it's spam. I tried to decode the JPG anyway but the end of it was cut off. Still, what I do have is here: http://matrix.theblob.org/spamjpg.jpg .

But yeah, definitely spam.

**Posted:** Sun May 14, 2006 5:31 am

audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

Hmm....odd

I really dont have time to look up the links you guys gave me, itll have to wait to tommorrow night, im at a computer station outside rome!

anyway, I did get a reply, it seems very unspamish to me...

**Posted:** Fri May 19, 2006 5:04 pm

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curiouswife

Depends what you call spam - scam is more like. Can be fun playing these people around - keeps them off the true innocents!

**Posted:** Fri May 19, 2006 5:20 pm

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