OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

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.

[Andrés]

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.

[Kamog]

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.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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 ]

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Hmmm, responding to my own post. That's a sign of something I am sure.

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.

If you were a convicted fellon wouldn't you wanna time travel to? 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.

[Gorgo]

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

[Erax]

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).