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Faceman
Joined: 11 Jul 2005
Posts: 300
Location: Boston
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 Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:37 pm
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Sorry, but I didn't know where else to report this.
I received a PM spam message today. Contents as follows:
From: wrightmathew30
To: Faceman
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:26 pm
Subject: THIS IS SPAM - Please delete
| Quote: | | FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT ANIMENEWSNETWORK
INTERNATIONAL
SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY CORPORATION
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD
PRESENTATION CENTER: AUSTRALIA
DATE: 22/10/2009.
REF: 475061725 BATCHES: 7056490902/188
WINNING NUMBER: GB8701/LPRC:
RE: This is a spam PM / phishing attempt. Please delete it!!!
DEAR SIR/MADAM
WE ARE DELIGHTED TO INFORM YOU OF YOUR PRIZE RELEASE ON
TODAY, 22th OCT 2009 FROM THE ANIMENEWSNETWORK
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMMED.WHICH IS FULLY BASES ON
ELECTRONIC SELECTION OF WINNERS USING THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESSES
TO TICKET NUMBER,17212,SERIAL NUMBER 7741137002 THIS BATCH
DRAWS THE LUCKY NUMBERS AS FOLLOWS 8382_42 BONUS NUMBERS
17,WHICH CONSEQUENTLY WON THE LOTTERY IN THE SECOND
CATEGORY.YOU HEREBY HAVE BEEN APPROVED A LUMP SUM PAY OF
US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) IN CASH CREDIT
FILE REF:ILP/HW 47509/02 FROM THE TOTAL CASH PRIZE SHARED
AMONGST EIGHT LUCKY WINNERS IN THIS CATEGORY.ALL PARTICIPANT
WERE SELECTED THROUGH A COMPUTER BALLOTING SYSTEM DRAWN FROM
NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND E-MAIL ADDRESSES FROM
CANADA,AUSTRALIA,UNITED STATES,ASIA,EUROPE,MIDDLE
EAST,AFRICA AND OCEANIA AS PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS PROGRAM WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY.THIS LOTTERY
WAS PROMOTED AND SPONSORED BY A CONGLOMERATE OF SOME
MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES AS PART OF THEIR SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CITIZENS BA
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: CONTACT OUR FIDUCIALLY AGENT
DIRECTOR, DR. MARY NORMAN AT
THIS IS SPAM
TO FILE FOR YOUR CLAIM.PLEASE QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE ,BATCH
AND WINNING NUMBER WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON THE TOP LEFT CORNER
OF THIS NOTIFICATION AS WE AS YOUR FULL NAME,ADDRESS AND
TELEPHONE NUMBER TO HELP LOCATE YOUR FILE EASILY. FOR
SECURITY REASONS, WE ADVICE ALL WINNERS TO KEEP THIS
INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL FROM THE PUBLIC UNTIL YOUR CLAIM IS
PROCESSED AND YOUR PRIZE RELEASED TO YOU.THIS IS PART OF OUR
SECURITY PROTOCOL TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIMING AND UNWARRANTED
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS PROGRAMMED BY NON-PARTICIPANT OR
UNOFFICIAL PERSONNEL.
NOTE, ALL WINNINGS MUST BE CLAIMED BEFORE THE 30TH OF
OCT 2009 .OTHERWISE ALL FUNDS WILL BE RETURNED AS
UNCLAIMED AND EVENTUALLY DONATED TO CHARITY ORGANIZATION
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
AT DIRECTOR, DR. MARY NORMAN AT
THIS IS SPAM
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS
WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:SIMPLY CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
DIRECTOR, DR. MARY NORMAN AT
THIS IS SPAM
BY FILLING THIS FORM BELOW AND SEND IT TO HER TO
FILE FOR YOUR CLAIM
FULL NAME............................
BIRTH
DATE..........................
ADDRESS.............................
SEX.........................AGE.....
NATIONALITY.........................
OCCUPATION..........................
TELEPHONE...........................
EMAIL...............................
DATE................................
PLEASE QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE ,BATCH AND WINNING NUMBER WHICH
CAN BE FOUND ON THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF THIS NOTIFICATION AS
WELL AS YOUR FULL NAME,ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER TO HELP
LOCATE YOUR FILE EASILY.
ANYONE BELOW EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/
HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS AND
DO INFORM THE AGENT IN CHARGE.
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN ON YOUR WINNINGS!!!
BEST REGARDS,
MRS. NANCY VIDUKA. (COORDINATOR) |
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jgreen
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 1325
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:24 pm
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I got the same message from the same user...
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ManOfRust
Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Posts: 1935
Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:35 pm
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I also got it. I won't delete it yet in case it would be helpful to have it forwarded to someone, but it's the same text as what Faceman posted.
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Keonyn
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Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 5567
Location: Coon Rapids, MN
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:17 pm
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Yes, we're aware of it and action has been taken to remove the PM's sent out and to prevent them from doing it again.
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Ktimene's Lover
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Posts: 2242
Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert)
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:10 pm
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You'd think with spam e-mails that they could at least improve their grammatical structure.
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dtm42
Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 14084
Location: currently stalking my waifu
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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:22 pm
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I just got some more automated PM spam from an account named baby123456.
Message is as follows:
| Spambot wrote: | Hello My Dear!!
My name is Miss loveline, and I saw your profile today at ( www.animenewsnetwork.com) and i become interested in you, Please My Dear I will like you to contact me back as soon as possible through my email address(I'm a spammer) so that i can give you my pictures for you to know whom i am, I believe we can move from here. Please Remember colour or distance does not matter, but Love matters allot in life. Reply me back on time,
From loveline. |
I wonder which English-is-not-the-first-language country this particular spam originates from?
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Hentai_JP
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 605
Location: Toronto, ON
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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:06 pm
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I also got the same message from baby123456 as dtm42. I wish it was more original than "i'll send you my pictures"...
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The King of Harts
Joined: 05 May 2009
Posts: 6712
Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia
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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:23 pm
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I got the same thing, too.
Aww. I thought she really loved me 
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frubam
Joined: 23 Jun 2005
Posts: 137
Location: under Sana's bed
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:21 am
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Just got this as well, exact same message. Funny thing is, I have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on my profile page  . Maybe she just loves people too easily  .
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dtm42
Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 14084
Location: currently stalking my waifu
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:52 am
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| frubam wrote: | Just got this as well, exact same message. Funny thing is, I have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on my profile page . Maybe she just loves people too easily . |
Just remember, it was almost certainly a spambot. Such things don't bother with reading profile pages, they just see usernames and spam from there.
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dtm42
Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 14084
Location: currently stalking my waifu
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:02 am
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Got another one, this time from a "user" (i.e. likely spambot) called infotechproximity8:
My latest book, Eudora for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-201-69663-0, $16.95) has just become available, and I thought I'd celebrate the event by passing on some of the information I learned in the process of writing the book. Qualcomm claims that 18 million people use Eudora for email; if my experiences with many friends and relatives who use Eudora is indicative, vast numbers of people aren't taking full advantage of the power in the latest versions of Eudora 3.x.
_____________________________________________________
Ben 10 Games [this is a link in the PM]
Killify this bot please.
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kyokun703
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
Posts: 2505
Location: Orgrimmar
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:13 am
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Got some spam (twice) from an anna212:
| Quote: | hello dear
my name is Anna and my contact address is ( [email protected]) :i am a beautiful young girl with full of love and ca rely, well i saw your profile and i love it, i think we can click together. please i will like you to contact me through this my email address thus ( [email protected]) please contact me with my email address i will like to show you my photo and at the same time you will know more about me.once again please contact me true my email address.don't send it to the site,the will not allow me to read your reply duo to i don't have any access their.so please email with my address.
thanks for your understanding
Anna |
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