OT: Wierdest Spam I ever recieved

[tesco samoa]

guess were not on that nerds list

Were not worthy

[gregebowman]

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

[geoschmo]

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

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.

[Nocturnal]

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."

[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.

[geoschmo]

Ok, we all hate spam. Unsolicited sales pitches. Yuck!

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

[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.

[Gryphin]

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

[Slynky]

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

[Loser]

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