This is the first spam I've gotten in my Inbox since I joined Gmail. A little creepy, don't you think?

We get faxes like that almost every day at the radio station.

of course he is.

for some reason, ive never got a 419 scam e-mail. somehow i feel like ive missed out.

I get about 20 a week... 65% fron Nigeria though.

I got one from a banker in Turkey once.

Love to see his face when he receives a sack full of Monopoly money in return.

guys i totally got rich off this. you'd be surprised at how many distant relatives we all have in shitsville africa.

What's more interesting is this kind of email, increasingly sent, they seem like little fractal nuggets of linguistic cyberbabble... occasionally stumbling upon real poetry. I mean what-the-hell. For eample, this evening this arrived:

(and too short) to spend it struggling with academic (or worse, a flat tire), (and impress cocktail party guests) of Design Patterns so want to see how in between sips of a martini.

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You'll easily counter with your Head First book, you know them to work immediately. to do instead). You want a design paddle pattern.

of patterns with others (and impress cocktail party guests) advantage your brain works. Using Head First Design Patterns up a creek without
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With Design Patterns, is so often misunderstood, to learn how those support in your own code. In a way that lets you put

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i think a lot of the names of the "people" sending you spam are hilarious. If I were a writer I think I'd rip some of them off.

Obner discussed this spammer recently, same M.o. but different name this thread.

http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p ... ht=#435693

what's so creepy about it? it's just spam.

Eeew. Spam.

Not if you receive 200 spammails a week offering you pills to grow a bigger dick or trying to sell you a cure for cancer. I got spammed the very first day I opened my Gmail. How's that possible if I haven't even used my e-mail at that time?

If one person in ten thousand will respond to it, then someone will send it to a million people. Economics.

I just checked my account and I've got this exact same e-mail.

I responded in customary fashion.

Young Sliva <youngsliva@atlas.sk>
More options Oct 8 (17 hours ago)

In confidence / Young

Hello Dear,

I am Mr Young Sliva from sierra leone but residing in Ivory Coast in Africa. It is my desire to contact you on honesty and sincerity to assist me in transferring the sum of $8,000,000(Eight Million United States Dollars) inherited from my father late Mr. Sliva Duku to your country for investment. I am motivated in contacting you and hope to gradually build trust, relationship and confidence in you as I get to know you better.

So please I want to know if you will be of assistance but first I want to get to know you better. I am willing to offer you $1,600,000(One Million Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) for your effort input after the successful transfer of this money and investment. Indicate your interest towards assisting me by sending your phone # and address to me so that I can communicate with you at any time. I will be waiting for your response.

Thanks

Young Sliva

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darrin frew to Young
More options 3:56 pm (0 minutes ago)

Hi, you fucking low life, swindling piece of shit.

Do you think I'm an idiot? Clearly this is a transparent scam in which people like you (dumb) take advantage of trusting, naive individuals (dumber). Well my friend, might I remind you God is watching you and no doubt you are from this moment onwards damned to eternal damnation in the fiery lake of Hell.

What's more, if I ever find out who you are (and I have a private detectives in Abidjan and Paris tracing the IP number of the computer you used) I will personally fly over their and cut your testicles off with a machete and feed them, before your very eyes, to a tusked boar. And, believe me here, boars are messy eaters.

Thanks

Darrin

They will read half the first sentence and then delete it. They are not human. But I chuckled.

check out the email I just got:



I seriously have no idea what sort of mailing list I'm on to get this.

wait, isnt that a CWEY post from a couple of weeks back?