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guess were not on that nerds list http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Were not worthy

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Convicted spammer? I didn't think that was against the law yet. Mostly I get spam for girls with animals and mortgage deals.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, I should have phrased that better. He was convicted for fraud. His particular spams were directing people to websites purporting to offer software for sale. In reality it would collect the persons credit card number when they ordered, and then give nothing. He was a notorius spammer though that just happend to also be a con artist. But as far as anyone can tell the time travel spams were not a con, but merely a symptom of a mental breakdown of some kind. Or he's a good actor and it's all a big joke.

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I didn't get this one (used to get several others in the same vein though) but I saw someone else post it and it was funny enough to remember:

"Knock people down with your huge cock."

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Yeah, I heard about that guy on the news. He got in trouble for fraud but some other people also got in trouble for frauding him. They sent him some spare parts and then charged him for it. It's all legit, well the guy being crazy and not meaning to hurt anyone anyway. I think all charges have been dropped but the guy is ordered to stay offline.

OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

Ok, we all hate spam. Unsolicited sales pitches. Yuck! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

But I got one a few months back that was kind of wierd. I don't know why I just started thinking about this today, but I did. It didn't seem to be advertising any product, as far as I recall there was no attachment and no link to a web page. It was simply a message purporting to be from a time traveller from the future that had been stranded here and was looking for some obscure components that they could modify to repair their time machine. The email asked people to reply and list any of these specific items they could supply. Perhaps that was where you got the sales pitch, if you replied. I don't know cause I never responded.

Did anyone else see that and do they know what it was about? Maybe it was some college prank or experiment or something. I know I received it on a couple of my email addresses so I doubt it was somebody just messing with me specifically.

Geoschmo

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Hmmm, responding to my own post. That's a sign of something I am sure. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Actually I did a little googling after my Last post and it seems this is a well discussed topic. Apparently the guy responsible for the message is a seriously emotionally disturbed individual, who also happens to be a convicted spammer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Maybe they were trying to find out if it was an active email account.

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Apparently, of all the spam I receive, I seem to have dodged that one.

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Wow, that beats the best I've seen, namely Septic Tank Service and Amateur Cage Fights.

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My 15 year old sister receives a lot of 'penis enlargement' spam.

I tend to automatically erase anything that looks like spam (I had to retrieve some non-spam Messages from the trash folder more than once).

Do they ever work?
Even in the strange occasion that I might be interested in buying the product/service they offer, I'd already dismissed their email.

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Maybe they want us to think that the time travel story was a sympton of a mental break down. If he really were a time traveler, they would tell everybody that the guy was mentally unstable or something, to cover it all up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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it's all a cover up, a cover up i tell you! THE LITTLE PURPLE MEN ARE GOING TO INVADE FROM ALPHA CENTURI!

but don't worry, our secret disintegrater ray in area 51 1/2 will destroy them.

you know, Rollo's got the perfect lines for this thread.

[ November 20, 2003, 05:47: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If you were a convicted fellon wouldn't you wanna time travel to? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Just a thought. Go back in time to the point at which you made the mistake that got you busted and warn yourself not to do it. Then again, if your a con man, you will think that your self from the future is attempting to con you so you wouldn't listen and you'd do exactly what he warned you not to do and would be busted again thus starting the time paradox that will repeat itself a cilltillion to the 1 cilliton power and then some.

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About the time travelling story, I really liked the part where a guy made up an Online store just for the spammer. Both text and pix are hilarious:
http://www.davesplanet.net/store/

For those who haven't found it, the story:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60141,00.html

Gorgo

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Yeah, the Dimensional Warp Generator email (cool name for a component, BTW). I got that one several times, always from German email addresses. I thought it was a joke (a funny one at that).

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A Dimensional Warp Generator? Hummm, come to think of it, I just might have one of those lying around in the back room, let me go look.

*BRB

I do have one left, and at a great price too. Only $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

And that is at cost to.

Re: OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

"friend prices"

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Ah what the hell, knock a billion off. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Check this out.. regarding spam filters.

http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/34035.html

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">the 'Acme' tends to make me believe it's a big scam. for those of you who don't know, acme was a company that sold cheap gags. plus, in the cartoons i watched it had an unfailing ability to deliver weird gadgets to cartoon character's. although the gadgets themselves weren't always satisfactory.

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I am under the impression that the reason the cartoon used the brand name ACME is because it was a command company name. There a still a whole heck of a lot of companies the ACME in their name. Check your phone book, I'll bet there are some in your own town.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">the 'Acme' tends to make me believe it's a big scam. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The part about him being a time traveller from the future didn't tip you off, but when you saw "ACME" you knew it was bogus? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Cutting your own throat too, probably http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">time traveler, delusional. company name from cartoons, joke.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">personally, i don't know a thing about wether or not it's a real company, however, someone else on this forum seemed to think that.

[ November 20, 2003, 20:42: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">LOL! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Those message exchanges that people have had with the time traveller guy are really funny. Those people are making up all sorts of nonsense, claiming they have the special components, and so on, and the time traveller guy always responds so seriously. ... some people must have alot of free time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">In case you aren't aware, Penny Arcade did a comic about that recently.

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ACME: literally, the peak, or the pinnacle.
In business lingo: "ACME widgets are the best!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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Don't you just love those old Coyote road runner catoons. The Acme rocket is the best. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved
 

...This has to be the wierdest spam that Taz has EVER recieved:

Ôóòáîë â Ëóæíèêàõ!

Äëÿ Âàñ:
1. Ïðåäîñòàâëÿåì ïëîùàäêè äëÿ ìèíè-ôóòáîëà (ïðîðåçèíåííîå êîâðîâîå ïîêðûòèå) – 1000 ðóáëåé â ÷àñ.
2. Äëÿ ÷àñòíûõ ëèö, æåëàþùèõ èãðàòü â ôóòáîë, ìû ïîäáèðàåì êîìàíäó ïî âîçðàñòó è èíòåëëåêòó – 100 ðóáëåé â ÷àñ.

ÁÅÑÏËÀÒÍÎ ïðåäîñòàâëÿåì:
- ôóòáîëüíûé èíâåíòàðü (ìÿ÷è, Æèëåòêè, êîíóñû, ôèøêè è ò.ä.)
- êîíñóëüòàöèè ïðîôåññèîíàëüíîãî òðåíåðà.
- òåïëûå ðàçäåâàëêè ñ äóøåâûìè êàáèíêàìè.

Ïî æåëàíèþ îðãàíèçîâûâàåì ñóäåéñòâî (ïëàòíî)
3. Ïðåäîñòàâëÿåì ÑÀÓÍÛ.
Çà îäèí ÷àñ – 600 ðóáëåé.
Çà äâà ÷àñà – 1000 ðóáëåé
Çà òðè ÷àñà – 1200 ðóáëåé, êàæäûé ïîñëåäóþùèé ÷àñ ïîñëå òðåõ ÷àñîâ – 300 ðóáëåé.
4. Ïðîôåññèîíàëüíàÿ ïîäãîòîâêà ëþáèòåëüñêèõ êîìàíä ê òóðíèðàì. Òåõíèêà, òàêòèêà, ñòðàòåãèÿ, êîëëåêòèâíûå äåéñòâèÿ ( 500 ðóáëåé îäíî çàíÿòèå)

Äëÿ Âàøèõ äåòåé:
5. Èíäèâèäóàëüíàÿ êîìïëåêñíàÿ ïîäãîòîâêà ìàëü÷èêîâ, âîçðàñòîì äî 13 ëåò, ê ïðîôåññèîíàëüíîìó ôóòáîëó, ñ ïîñëåäóþùèì òðóäîóñòðîéñòâîì.
Çàíÿòèÿ ïðîâîäÿò òðåíåðû ïî ôóòáîëó, ëåãêîé àòëåòèêå, ïëàâàíèþ è ðèòìèêå ñ ôóòáîëüíîé íàïðàâëåííîñòüþ. 300 ðóáëåé îäíî çàíÿòèå.

ÑÎÁÅÐÈÒÅ ÊÎÌÀÍÄÓ ÈËÈ ÏÐÈÕÎÄÈÒÅ ÑÀÌÈ ÏÐÎÂÅÑÒÈ ÑÂÎÁÎÄÍÎÅ ÂÐÅÌß Ñ ÏÎËÜÇÎÉ ÄËß ÇÄÎÐÎÂÜß

If ANYONE out there has ever seen this (and can translate) Taz would be VERY interested in hearing about it!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

My guess: I just got my first Encrypted Message.
Unfortunately, Taz has NO IDEA what will de-encrypt it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

P.S. Above was titled : Private Message
Yea... So private that even I can't read it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ November 24, 2003, 05:51: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

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I have received Messages like that, too, but I just deleted them. I'm guessing that they are in some other language like maybe Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc and you need the proper font installed in your computer to view it.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It is Russian http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif To view letters correctly you should setup broweser to recognise Cyrillic encoding. Go to "view", "encoding" and select Cyrilic(win).

Basically it is an advertising from "Luzhniki" stadium in Moscow. Apparently they have a nice set of health and fittness clubs. If you ever be in Moscow and want sauna or gym, that's a place http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif They also have a soccer school for boys and want you to join http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif !

[ November 24, 2003, 14:53: Message edited by: oleg ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nothing works better than diet and exercise.

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What sort of diet, and what kind of exercise? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif