RE: [Asrg] Weird spam

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

It is probably going to turn out to be an advance fee fraud.

Making out that you are derranged is a common trick amongst con artists.
Consider how likely it is that someone who gets caught in a scheme that is
as demented as this one is going to complain to the police or if they do
that they will be taken seriously.

There are other possible explanations.


		Phill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernon Schryver [mailto:vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:45 PM
> To: asrg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Asrg] Weird spam
> 
> 
> > From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
> 
> > ...
> > At 8:54 PM -0400 6/25/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
> > >I received a very strange spam message, quoted below. Does anyone 
> > >know what these kind of messages accomplish?
> >
> > Same as hoaxes and graffiti.  The knowledge of knowing that your 
> > message is being seen by thousands of people.  That one's 
> been around 
> > for a while.  ALong with the guy looking for a time machine 
> and a few 
> > others.
> 
> Some commentators in NANAE claim that this guy is the same as the
> time machine guy and that he's seriously distrubed.  See
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22unlimited+memory+backup%2
2+group%3A*.email


> One more reason why the definition of "spam" should not include the 
> word "commercial".

Yes, but charity and political spam is more common and so better
examples outside the political and helping professions who, like
most people, insist "Spam is that which I don't do."


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com

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