Dimensional Warp Generator...

brian lists at karas.net
Tue Jul 8 16:33:36 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:19, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
>   I finally did what I should have done: Googled for it.  The consensus
> appears to be that it is a spam technique: Spammer sends out an inventive
> email like this.  Curious people, knowing it obviously is not a legit
> commercial effort, go to the URL or reply or whatever, just to see what
> happens.  Bingo -- the spammer now knows your address is "live".

Maybe the "I'll pay you $5,000" part hooks in the easily conned, but I
have to imagine that the bulk of that email contains terms/phrases that
would scare off 90% of the recipients...





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