An odd email (don't worry I won't reply)

[Ms Piggy]

I just thought it was really weird that I should be sent this, since I ride a Honda. Interesting emailing adress too!

FROM: Honda Handle AG Company
SUBJECT: Let's make our living together!
CC:
REPLY-TO: Honda Handle AG Company
ATTACHMENTS: default.htm nowaday.GIF
DATE: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:10:30 +1200
STATUS: Normal
TO: sea_lily_nz@yahoo.co.uk


FROM: Honda Handle AG Company
SUBJECT: Let's make our living together!
CC:
REPLY-TO: Honda Handle AG Company
ATTACHMENTS: default.htm nowaday.GIF
DATE: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:10:30 +1200
STATUS: Normal
TO: sea_lily_nz@yahoo.co.uk



When I highlighted the whole message this was at the end ie. in white text.
>Pearl Harbor He's about in 1857 As far as I knowDMX Are you?






>Pearl Harbor He's about in 1857 As far as I knowDMX Are you?

[Riff Raff]

Yay another scam. Where are those Nigrerians?

[What?]

I suggest you run a virus scan Cathy. You never know what else comes with these things...

Then download mailwasher from www.mailwasher.com to filter this crap out.

[Ms Piggy]

I suggest you run a virus scan Cathy. You never know what else comes with these things...

Then download mailwasher from www.mailwasher.com to filter this crap out.

Thanks. I don't use Outlook Express to d/l my emails though so I'm not sure if something like that would work. Would it?

Ummmm - the site is offline anyway.

[bungbung]

Under 80 years old?

oh well...

[Biff]

Interestingly enough I received a similar one this morning, proclaiming to be from a travel company named Rest & Travel (although the sender e-mail address was a KCMS domain) offering both myself and about 800 other people a job as a regional travel manager, and to respond directly to a Rest & Travel address given.

At the bottom was a a very small bit of text. I copied it into word and increased the font size:

Think of Cartagena! Think of the hell those devils will be
makin You are probably aware that he delivered us, said he. And
liv soul, who, broken-hearted by the early death of a young wife,
had not to blame for your lordship's poor memory. I say that it
was of it, returned empty-handed to Port Royal, there to find
awaitin with Captain Blood. I know my duty to my King, and I intend
to my Lord Sunderland, the Secretary of State, had appointed a
stron a surfeit of despair; and the man in him promptly shook off
that

Makes a change from former african dictators offering to make me rich I guess.

These look like attempts to swamp legit companies with e-mail responses.

[jazbug5]

Hmmm.

Yes, for a while I've been getting these bizarre spams to my Hotmail account which looked like short stories randomly written by some sort of story writing software. I wasn't sure what the point was?
On the other hand, my email address will still be registered with my old design college in the UK, so I figured there was an outside chance it was some 2nd year Graphic Design student 'searching for meaning in the digital age' by sending out digital Haiku to alumni...(translation: being a plonker).

[The Tazman]

These sort of things just confirms to me the amount of idiots there are in the world over. They seem to live their lives just to piss people off and if they can hurt them financially .

Jazz with hot mail you can set it so that only the people you want to hear from will come through to your inbox and everything else goes to junk. Just check the junk once a week. It works really well.

[jazbug5]

... is what I do already.

But thanks, Taz. Just kind of wondered what the hell it was about- without being curious enough to actually click on anything, of course!

[Ms Piggy]

I also get heaps sent to my Yahoo acct from Hong Kong Bank or Barclays Bank saying that they need to confirm my details by clicking on a link. Like that's gonna happen! I guess they assume b/c I'm registered with Yahoo.co.uk that I'm with 1 of those banks. I sent them onto my bank but I'm not sure that there is much they could do anyway.

It is sad though that there are naieve (ok stupid) people out there who get swindled by these types.

[Biff]

Apparently 1 in three people have fallen for these cons. Own up. Whose been caught out here ? We wont laugh - honest.

[Riff Raff]

Apparently 1 in three people have fallen for these cons. Own up. Whose been caught out here ? We wont laugh - honest.

Not me - I show off my stupidity in better and more spectacular ways!

[ManDownUnder]

Apparently 1 in three people have fallen for these cons. Own up. Whose been caught out here ? We wont laugh - honest.

yeah but 1 in 5 statistics are just made up on the spot anyways...

Especially when out doing this...

MDU

[Wonko]

The semi random text that is hidden is there to try to help slip the message passed spam blockers. If the email appears to be more like a normal email then it will get passed.

[Biff]

The semi random text that is hidden is there to try to help slip the message passed spam blockers. If the email appears to be more like a normal email then it will get passed.

Ahhhhhhh - that's why it made it past my companies spam blockers is it? I was wondering why emails from business contacts/friends get blocked yet this shite and porn get through. I must sack that lousy IT manager.

Then again $20 for 50 Viagra does sound like a bargain