This email sounds pretty hokey, eh?

T

themacko

Barking at the moon.
I got an email this morning asking me for help in newsgroups (I just posted to a newsgroup on google last week) and anyways, this just sounds like a hoax or something.

From: <*****@aol.com>
Date: Sun Oct 27, 2002 3:50:14 PM America/Phoenix
To: Friends....@smtpin01-en2.mac.com
Subject: NewsGroups, please help
Reply-To: <*****@aol.com>

Hi my name is Angelica Lyximboorg; I am 22 years of age.
I am new to the internet, and I found your e-mail on one of the news groups.
I was just wondering if you would be kind enough and walk me thru on how to post a massage on the board.
I heard it's to do something with outlook express or something, I am just a little bit confused and all =)
If you can explain to me how to use the news groups forum that would be great.
Here is my e-mail address which I use daily *****@hotmail.com
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Obviously this doesn't sound like a real person who needed help wrote it. Then notice where it says 'To' ... what's up with that?

It seems to me like they sent this email out to a bunch of people with .Mac email addy's and the people that reply they know the address is still active.

I just think it's funny that they're spamming through Apple's email servers. That what it seems like me, anyways.
 
No, no...that's pretty interesting actually.
What a great way to get the word out to unknown people about something. :D
 
Bull$#!T!
"I found your e-mail on one of the news groups"
Uhuh, I've gotten this line on a bunch of spam.
And why did she give you her "hotmail" address instead of her AOL one? Cuz the hotmail address is an email collection account! And the fact that your email is not in the "to" field...

That's just too many points against that email to be legit. It's defenatly spam in my book!

Watch, wait a week or two and try sending email to it (from another account you don't care about, like setup a temporary hotmail or yahoo account) and I'll bet you 5 bucks that the account will no longer be active! :p
 
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