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Now that's good spam
Posted: 11:19 Jul 28 2003
Oddest spam ever?
Received this ultra-weird piece of spam allegedly from a time traveller. It is actually quite amusing but a bit odd as it isn't obvious what the sender might be trying to sell. Unless of course, it's from a spammer who's just practicising before he really gets going... I am also rather puzzled by the fanni@looi.com address as I know damn well I have never used that address!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ear42@deutschland.de [mailto:ear42@deutschland.de]
> Sent: 28 July 2003 13:05
> To: fanni@looi.com
> Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed ang
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my
> dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company
> here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A
> watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG
> unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with
> the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of
> SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.
>
> I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its
> received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.
>
> In terms of payment:
> I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in
> platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.
>
> Please transport unit in either a large brown paper bag or box to
> below coordinates on Monday July 28th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern
> Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it
> cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me.
>
> Twenty-three inches in from the outside edge of the corner at the
> South West
> Corner of Cummings Ave. & Village Street in Woburn, Mass. is at Latitude
> 42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above
> sea level.
> WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF
> TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!
> (NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO TRANSPORT ANYTHING SO FAR WITHOUT THE
> TRANSFER BEING DEFLECTED). I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT
> HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE
> ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU
> BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.
>
> Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these
> channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the
> only form of communication I have right now.
>
> After unit has been sent please email me at:
> info@federalfundingprogram.com
> with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.
>
> Thank You
(Edited by Ming 03/08/2003 12:37)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ear42@deutschland.de [mailto:ear42@deutschland.de]
> Sent: 28 July 2003 13:05
> To: fanni@looi.com
> Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed ang
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my
> dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company
> here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A
> watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG
> unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with
> the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of
> SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.
>
> I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its
> received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.
>
> In terms of payment:
> I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in
> platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.
>
> Please transport unit in either a large brown paper bag or box to
> below coordinates on Monday July 28th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern
> Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it
> cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me.
>
> Twenty-three inches in from the outside edge of the corner at the
> South West
> Corner of Cummings Ave. & Village Street in Woburn, Mass. is at Latitude
> 42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above
> sea level.
> WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF
> TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!
> (NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO TRANSPORT ANYTHING SO FAR WITHOUT THE
> TRANSFER BEING DEFLECTED). I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT
> HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE
> ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU
> BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.
>
> Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these
> channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the
> only form of communication I have right now.
>
> After unit has been sent please email me at:
> info@federalfundingprogram.com
> with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.
>
> Thank You
(Edited by Ming 03/08/2003 12:37)
26 Replies and 5261 Views in Total. [ 1 2 ]
Now that's good spam
Posted: 11:19 Jul 28 2003 
hmmm, that gives me 55 minutes to get there with the package if you can't, I have to try!
Posted: 14:06 Jul 28 2003
That's Eastern Standard Time. Not sure of the exact time difference of the top of my head but you have a few hours yet. And be my guest...
Posted: 15:08 Jul 28 2003
These have been kicking around for a year or so in one form or another, very cute though by the standards of junk mail. If only all the spam I get were so 
Posted: 16:43 Jul 28 2003 A usenet post a couple of months ago to alt.guitar.tab requesting the tab for "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" by Bobby Vee.
by Ming
I am also rather puzzled by the fanni@looi.com address as I know damn well I have never used that address!
Posted: 16:45 Jul 28 2003
Wait a minute, are you saying someone using the email address fanni@looi.com posted on alt.guitar.tab asking about "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"?!?
Posted: 19:53 Jul 28 2003 
Maybe you use that address in the future and the timetraveller saw it then
by Ming
I am also rather puzzled by the fanni@looi.com address as I know damn well I have never used that address!
Posted: 22:31 Jul 28 2003
If I ever start using an address like that, I deserve to have a Terminator sent to teach me the error of my ways!
Posted: 00:52 Jul 29 2003 
The "funniest" spam i ever got claimed to be from a "Kristina Weber". And as my friends 17 year old baby sisters name is "kristina Weber" I didnt first realise it was spam, although i was a bit puzzeled why she should send me an e-mail. Especially after i opened the mail and she asked me to check out her "sexy pictures" and her live cam, as she was so horny. 
Posted: 07:22 Jul 29 2003
Sara I can understand that, I've had *dodgy* emails over the last month from a Denise, Karen & Teresa ... its so easy to think you are getting a real email from people!
Posted: 09:42 Jul 29 2003 HAHA! They probably were from me. Come on Sam, you know you want to check out my webcam
by Samphirette
Sara I can understand that, I've had *dodgy* emails over the last month from a Denise, Karen & Teresa ... its so easy to think you are getting a real email from people!
Posted: 13:10 Jul 29 2003
You'll have to tell me how to view it then - I haven't gotten into that sort of technology yet
Posted: 13:40 Jul 29 2003 I am reliably informed by someone who's done an IP lookup that this chap was in Australia. Now, the number of people I know in Australia could be counted on the fingers of one hand. And have lots of spare capacity. This just gets odder...
by Ming
What the Hell?!? Why my domain?!? Need to investigate further...
Posted: 16:51 Jul 29 2003 I am occasionally puzzled at the shelves full of webcams at places like PC World and do wonder who buys them and what for?
by Samphirette
You'll have to tell me how to view it then - I haven't gotten into that sort of technology yet
Posted: 16:52 Jul 29 2003 Me!
by Ming
I am occasionally puzzled at the shelves full of webcams at places like PC World and do wonder who buys them...
by Ming
...and what for?
Posted: 17:13 Jul 29 2003
OK, aside from that sort of thing. That can't account for the volumes of webcams that seem to be in circulation. Can they? 
Posted: 19:01 Jul 29 2003 Of course not, there can't possibly be *that* much porn on the net (nor *that* many pics of teresa's boobs).
by Ming
OK, aside from that sort of thing. That can't account for the volumes of webcams that seem to be in circulation. Can they?
Though given the number of webcams and digital cams in circulation it always amazes me the number of hot seventeen year old bi babes I chat to whose profile pics have "hustler" or "playboy" tags at the bottom
Best internet quote ever...
The vast majority of webcams sit idle on the shelf, or in the draw, next to the computer; having been a cute toy for the first week, then abandoned once their owners realised that video chat with aunt Maude in Guatemala wasn't as viable over 28.8 as they first thought.
Time Magazine, 3 July 1995
The Internet, of course, is more than just a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs.
Posted: 01:07 Jul 30 2003 [ 1 2 ]