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Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]
Short and sweet.
What is telephone code +22? Well, he has a Yahoo address, that sounds more familiar, I'll just write to him there.
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From: xxxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: TAG <tag@lists.linuxgazette.net> Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:21 AM Subject: FOR YOUR PAST EFFORT COMPENSATION To: "tizipoa at hotmail.com" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Friend; Happy New Year, I am successful in transfering the funds under the cooperation of a new partner .Presently I'm in Kuwait for oil investment projects with my new partner also you should contact my secretary on the information bellow for your compensation towards your past effort .
NAME;MR.JECHIE BEN. Tele Cell +22996681328. EMAIL;(jXXXX at yahoo.com <jechie_b at yahoo.com>)
I instructed my secetary that you should contact him to send you the total sum of($1.8m) one million, eight hundred thousand dollars in A CASHIER'S CHEQUE, which I kept for your compensation.
Regards, Dr.Ken Chun.
-- Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>
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Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]
Editor: scramble From: and To: addresses in previous forward.
-- Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:53:52AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> Editor: scramble From: and To: addresses in previous forward.
Uh-huh. Don't want anybody else to get a part of that One Million Eight Hundred Thousand (US$1,800,000) Dollars, hey? I'd be jumping on it myself, but I've got a thing for Maryam Abacha (she's a hottie - I can tell from the font she's using in her emails to me!) Besides, she's promising me 35% (Thirty-Five Percent) of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$3,500,000), so I'm getting a better deal than you.
I'd heard about this Make Money Fast on the Internet thing, but I never believed it till now. French Riviera and Monaco, here I come!!!
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Karl Vogel [vogelke+tag at pobox.com]
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:42:55 -0500, >> Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> said:
B> I'd heard about this Make Money Fast on the Internet thing, but I never B> believed it till now.
I prefer spam that rhymes, like the one I got this morning:
Present to the girlfriend unforgettable night! Make happy the girlfriend! Be always at height!
-- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Bureaucracy: turning energy into solid waste. --unknown
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:28:23PM -0500, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:42:55 -0500, > >> Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> said: > > B> I'd heard about this Make Money Fast on the Internet thing, but I never > B> believed it till now. > > I prefer spam that rhymes, like the one I got this morning: > > Present to the girlfriend unforgettable night! > Make happy the girlfriend! Be always at height!
I have to trawl through my 'SAVE_ALL' box for that kind of entertainment these days; I don't see much spam anymore thanks to my setup. But there are always some gems in there.
> From: Brenda Gomaz <georgetheresa352 at gmail.com> > Subject: Hello... Brenda Gomaz of Spanish Financial Intelegent Unit Spain.^^^^^^^^^^ Love this one - including the so-obviously-Spanish-gov address.
> From: Google Incorporation <g_asap at cable.net.co> > Subject: > Reply-to: google.claims.dept at nsitez.net
Fer sure, dude!
> You are receiving this email because we wish you to use our 3D/2D > animation services. > > We are a China based animation studio.
Yeah, I recognized that famous subtle Chinese approach right away.
> Subject: Старий Новий рiк. Кам'янець-Подiльський. Готель "7 Днiв" > > Старий Новий рiк Ви навряд чи ще так зустрiчали, адже Ви перенесетесь у > радянську епоху без набридливих черг, > без дефiциту i з вiльним доступом до всього недоступного. > Насичена програма заходiв впродовж всього туру не дозволить Вам нудьгувати!
I've mentioned my auto-spoonerizing brain, right? Languages that I don't understand are no problem: my mind just goes into "must figure out" mode (or "have no clue" mode), and all is well. But ones I almost understand - the above is Ukrainian, and I'm a native Russian speaker - are just... Must Not Go There. (But the images of sexual services sold in Hell on New Year's are going to take bleepka to erase. Bleeprin alone is not enough.)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bleepka
> Subject: Super Angebote! Hier Software Bestellen > > Damit hat keiner gerechnet! Einfach SALE-2011 eintippen und schon werden
...although false cognates in mostly-unfamiliar languages can be fun. I'd swear too if my hat did anything like that!
> Subject: =?windows-1255?Q?=E4=ED =F8=F7 =E1=F0=E9 12 =E5=E6=E4 =EC=E0 =F7=EC?= > > הם רק בני 12 וזה לא קל
Now there's somebody appealing to a broad market segment! Just like
the ones that start with "IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE BENEFICENT..." - um,
kinda similar, anyway. 
> Subject: Качественная диагностика и ремонт вашего АВТО > > Частная лаборатория моторных и электронных систем "МОТОРИК" производит > качественную диагностику и ремонт электронно-механических систем современных > автомобилей и устраняем разнообразные дефекты в работе.
The Russians have been doing this as long as they've been sending spam. Not just something like this, but this specifically: highly localized service ads. "Come to our auto shop in (some tiny town in Siberia)", or "we only deliver to an area within 5km of [address in Moscow]". Perhaps they've figured out a way to tie a 5km-long string to their emails, but it keeps breaking?
> From: Bangalore School of Business <bsb at bsbinfo.in> > Subject: Learn skills that turn you into People of Substance > > Campus > [ ]Bangalore > [*]Delhi > [ ]Kolkata > [ ]Nagpur > [ ]Hyderabad
Gosh. I guess they're using a somewhat longer string.
> Subject: Chinese Dinosaur Plant > > hello > I am China dinosaur factory .
Um... SURE! And I'm Indivisible Mordant Catapult Philology. Pleezetameetcha! I'll let you try what I'm smoking for some of yours!
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *