Golden mountains await you

Dr Lobster* · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 10.09

have any of you guys been inundated with spam proclaiming that i should waste no time, as said mountain awaits?

my mailbox is normally relatively spam free, but i've had about 50 of these over the last few days.

Philip · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 16.36

According to this it's a link to a casino website:
http://againstspammers.blogspot.com/200 ... nscom.html

steddenm · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 17.53

Since the original post this monring I've had 1,281 of these in FOUR different email accounts! Grrr...

cdd · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 18.39

*browses through Junk Mail* Yep, a steady stream of them over the past few days, and before that a similarly poetic message: "Do not lose time Sing, sing, sing"

Very weird indeed!

marksi · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 19.20

None at all. But Vansteenberg Lore is unable to call me and has sent me an email to tell me so. I wonder what he or she wants?

Why do spam messages have such wonderful names attached to them?

Beep · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 19.26

Joy Kuma sent me a lovely gem.

Donation From madam joy,

May our good Lord bless you,reward you for your going out and your coming in through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
I am madam joy of Kuwait,I am married to late Mr david kuma who worked with Kuwait embassy here in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2004.

We were married for eleven years without a child.He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.Before his death we were both born again Christian. Since his death i decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the bible is against.When my late husband was alive he left the sum of $2.5 Million (Two million five hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) in a general trust account with a Bank here in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire West Africa, Recently, following my ill health my doctor told me that i would not last for the next Eight months due to my cancer problem.

He told me that in the next 2 months there is going to be a spread of this cancer to my bones and i will not live again,the one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness.Having known my condition i decided to donate this fund to a Christian, Individual,and Organization or church that i know may need it and that will utilize this money the way i am going to instruct herein according to the desire of my late husband before his death.

Presently,this money is still with the Bank.I want this fund to be used in liberation work Activities like,help to Pastors families, Orphanages,less privileged in the society and Christian schools,poor people in your amidst and up keeping of the Churches and for propagating the word of God and to endeavour that the house of God is maintained.

I took this decision because i don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and i don't want my husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers.I don稚 want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way.This is why i am taking this decision.

The Bible made us to understand that "Blessed is the hand that giveth".I am not afraid of death hence i know where I am going.I know that i am going to be in the bosom of the Lord..Exodus 14 vs 14 says that 鍍he lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace・I don稚 need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health.With God all things are possible.

As soon as i receive your reply i shall give you the contact of the bank for you to contact with them directly for onward transfer.I will also issue you an authority letter that will prove you as the present beneficiary of my funds.I want you and your family to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd.My happiness is that i lived a life of a worthy Christian.Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth.

Please, always be prayerful all through your life,any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Hoping to receive your reply, remain blessed in the Lord.

Yours in Christ,
joy kuma .

cdd · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 19.48

marksi wrote:Why do spam messages have such wonderful names attached to them?

I have a theory about this. The names are chosen randomly from a list, and their list contains lots and lots of names. However there is no weighting for more common names, so very unusual names get a much higher chance of appearing than you'd expect.

iSon · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 22.09

marksi wrote:None at all. But Vansteenberg Lore is unable to call me and has sent me an email to tell me so. I wonder what he or she wants?

Why do spam messages have such wonderful names attached to them?

I think the best one I ever received was one at work with the fantastic subject...

"Wondrous tales of your magnificent sausage"

How did it know!?

Dr Lobster* · Mon 07 Jun, 2010 21.15

has anybody been getting hundreds of emails for "luxury watches"?

as you can see from the clickable thumbnail (thanks fab metro uploader) there are about 70 in my junk email from the last 72 hours or so. i've probably had about 30 today so far.

it's driving me nuts, not least because they come through my phone too. i think i'm probably going to have to turn off email to that domain for a few weeks.... feckers.

nidave · Mon 07 Jun, 2010 21.22

I sometimes reply to them to see what happens...
SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!
Read about it here http://itfailsagain.com/2010/05/more-phishing/

Nick Harvey · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 00.23

steddenm wrote:Since the original post this monring I've had 1,281 of these in FOUR different email accounts! Grrr...

Serves you right for having so many ficticious names, addresses and websites.