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Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Interesting spam technique. :) - Gotta love scam mail.

Hey Adrian, I see that you're on the board right now, so you are already probably aware of this. Today I got spam via the NewMars IkonBoard.

Following is part of the message (posting the whole thing would be quite pointless).

Email Generated by Ikonboard

Josh Cryer,

This email has been sent from ANNE via Ikonboard.

(http://www.newmars.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi)

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Inquiry of Trust Worthy And God Fearing Person on
Investment.
        GREETINGS DEAREST IN CHRIST ,
I thank Almighty God that made us to be alive till
today.

<snip>

The actual amount my father deposited in the Bank was
USD 10,000,000.00 DOLLARS(Ten million dollars)but you
must keep it secret because of our security here.

<snip>

Thanks for your co-operation.
Mr Jeff Sankoh.

Interesting way to spam, no?

Also, quite abusive. Hope you ban the sucker.

Note the newest member: New Mars forums welcomes our newest member ANNE making a total of 485 registered members.

Anyway, later.

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Free Spirit

Banned

Registered: 2003-06-12

Posts: 167

Re: Interesting spam technique. :) - Gotta love scam mail.

I got spammed twice by Anne with the same message.  Sounds like the oldest scam in the book to boot.

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Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Interesting spam technique. :) - Gotta love scam mail.

Hmm, I was afraid that if I turned that off, I wouldn't get PM's forwarded as emails. My PM box is going to fill up eventually, and the best way to keep a record of all the PM's I've recieved, is to recieve them in my email inbox.

With regards to the non-posters... I hope they didn't come here one day when I was being pushy or long-winded or whatever. It'd be a shame to lose a few people over first impressions.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

prometheusunbound

Banned

From: ohio

Registered: 2003-07-02

Posts: 209

Website

Re: Interesting spam technique. :) - Gotta love scam mail.

I suspect half of those 60% just read the posts. . .there are about 5 people in this message board that together have roughly 10,000 posted messages. . . . . .intimidation?  Lack of interest in replying?  Perhaps they are just more interested in hearing what the big boys have to say and don't really have any sort of ideas on these things. . .or they could just view space exploration as a novelty    or have a pretty general interest in it.

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