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| Thread ID: 64814 | 2005-12-29 07:05:00 | Weird Spam | Winston001 (3612) | PC World Chat |
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| 416478 | 2005-12-29 07:05:00 | Has anyone being getting oddly labelled spam lately? Usually the message is gibberish but eventually trys to sell pharmaceuticals or shares . Examples: From: "Jan Fredrickson" <fredrjan@pirko . fi> To: "Niles Stratman" (WHO?) Subject: Re: perennial insect Date: Thursday, 29 December 2005 1:22 a . m . http://www . setiawav . com mbie-n i-agra e-vitra aliu-m an-ax om-a $3,35 And another: http://doctrinairi . comoconta . com Oh, a storm . We prefer a TD, sir . Mr . St . Jacques left a telephone number in Plymouth . Whats your name? interrupted Alex suddenly . The clerk replied Pritchard and Conklin continued: Im going to ask you a very delicate question, Mr . Pritchard . Its important that you have the right answer, but if its the wrong one you must do as I tell you . Mr . St . Jacques will confirm everything I say when I reach him; however, I cant waste time now . Do you understand me? What is your question? asked the clerk with dignity . Im not a child, mon . Im sorry, I didnt mean to- The question, Mr . Conklin . Youre in a hurry . Normally the Xtra spam filter is excellent and I haven't had spam for a couple of years but suddenly this off-the-wall stuff is sneaking through . |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 416479 | 2005-12-29 08:36:00 | I'm getting a lot of those spams too lately. The random story ones are particularly good at getting through the spam filters. The weirdest one was a very offical one from the bank of america saying my account (which I don't have) had been accessed from somewhere overseas. The weird part was all the links went straight to the bank of america. Either the bank screwed up or they've started spamming people. | joshjnz (7844) | ||
| 416480 | 2005-12-29 08:44:00 | The weird part was all the links went straight to the bank of america. Either the bank screwed up or they've started spamming people.You can bet your bottom dollar that wasn't the real website of the bank they linked to no matter how good it looked. This is called phishing. The phishers fool people into thinking they have gone to the real website and then get the people to confirm their login details which is of course captured and then used by the criminals to access their accounts and clean them out. | Jen (38) | ||
| 416481 | 2005-12-29 16:58:00 | Don't you get it? You are being contacted by the Throsis Planet in the third orbit nearest the Omnicrom galaxy . They use encryption not unlike the DaVinci code that is readilly legible to simple humans . Here's the text: Oh, a storm . We prefer a TD, sir . Mr . St . Jacques left a telephone number in Plymouth . Whats your name? interrupted Alex suddenly . The clerk replied Pritchard and Conklin continued: Im going to ask you a very delicate question, Mr . Pritchard . Its important that you have the right answer, but if its the wrong one you must do as I tell you . Mr . St . Jacques will confirm everything I say when I reach him; however, I cant waste time now . Do you understand me? What is your question? asked the clerk with dignity . Im not a child, mon . Im sorry, I didnt mean to- The question, Mr . Conklin . Youre in a hurry . . . . and I leave the translation to yourselves with the decoding rules as follows: Take the first letter; if it's a upper-case, set your decoder ring to "Blue-3-g" and continue from there . If you don't have your ring then you must use the old fashioned un-encryption formula offered here: The first letter/number sets the sequence that must be followed . If a capitol letter or a digit >3<9, then multiply the terminal velocity for free-fall on Mercury (away from the sun) and divide that value by the square of the speed of light . The resulting minus (-) number becomes your ratio of declining numeric values until a positive (+) value is achieved, then the first ordinal digit from that point on will be the interpreter . Now, enter the values into your Media Player using the ten-key pad . Play the resulting tones and decrease the playback speed by 78%, listening very carefully to the voices in the background . They are saying: "Drink More Earl Grey Tea . " Simple . . . huh! Just the Earl Grey Tea Council sending advertisements on the internet . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 416482 | 2005-12-29 20:15:00 | Has anyone being getting oddly labelled spam lately? Usually the message is gibberish but eventually trys to sell pharmaceuticals or shares . Examples: From: "Jan Fredrickson" <fredrjan@pirko . fi> To: "Niles Stratman" (WHO?) Subject: Re: perennial insect Date: Thursday, 29 December 2005 1:22 a . m . http://www . setiawav . com mbie-n i-agra e-vitra aliu-m an-ax om-a $3,35 And another: http://doctrinairi . comoconta . com Oh, a storm . We prefer a TD, sir . Mr . St . Jacques left a telephone number in Plymouth . Whats your name? interrupted Alex suddenly . The clerk replied Pritchard and Conklin continued: Im going to ask you a very delicate question, Mr . Pritchard . Its important that you have the right answer, but if its the wrong one you must do as I tell you . Mr . St . Jacques will confirm everything I say when I reach him; however, I cant waste time now . Do you understand me? What is your question? asked the clerk with dignity . Im not a child, mon . Im sorry, I didnt mean to- The question, Mr . Conklin . Youre in a hurry . Normally the Xtra spam filter is excellent and I haven't had spam for a couple of years but suddenly this off-the-wall stuff is sneaking through . They are nothing new . Been getting that kind of spam for a year or more . 90% of it is filtered out by the spam filter by my ISP . I check the filtered email as sometimes it filters email that isn't spam . Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 416483 | 2005-12-29 21:20:00 | This is happening to us as well. It was all quiet for a while, now it is back with a vengeance. Have installed "Spamfighter" which puts it into a Spamfighter folder if it is not in our address book. Still have to look in Sf tho to check for real Emails. So what was the point in loading Sf, I wonder. I WISH ALL SPAMMERS A ROTTEN NEW YEAR & I HOPE THEIR COMPUTERS GET STOLEN. PJ :mad: :mad: :mad: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 416484 | 2005-12-29 21:41:00 | THIS JUST IN - SPAMMERS ON THE INTERNETS.... MORE AT 11 | ninja (1671) | ||
| 416485 | 2005-12-29 21:45:00 | The weird part was all the links went straight to the bank of america. Either the bank screwed up or they've started spamming people.loethlin.tripod.com | ninja (1671) | ||
| 416486 | 2005-12-29 22:49:00 | You can bet your bottom dollar that wasn't the real website of the bank they linked to no matter how good it looked. This is called phishing. The phishers fool people into thinking they have gone to the real website and then get the people to confirm their login details which is of course captured and then used by the criminals to access their accounts and clean them out. No it was the actual bank of america website. I checked the whois of the website and googled bank of america. It was the legit website it's just the ip from which the access came from that was nonexistant. |
joshjnz (7844) | ||
| 416487 | 2005-12-31 00:47:00 | When they first started identifying spam emails our ISP, Xtra, captured 100% of these. However in the past month they have let quite a few through. Some of the spammers must be trying to not use the more standard keywords and avoiding detection :yuck: I keep giving feedback to "spamreport@xtra.co.nz Misty :p |
Misty (368) | ||
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