Smart Spamming... (1 Viewer)

[Frigid]

received this in my hotmail - what do you think?

Subject: This is a reply to the mail you sent me. (Ref. KK342XF07S0)

Hi - _______@hotmail.com

Sent from Gemma Brown.

I recently received a chain letter (A piece of mail that had been forwarded to me) that had your e-mail address in it along with several other peoples.

I thought that as your mail address was on one of these chain letters (forwards) you may have others that you would be willing to send to me. I know that this might sound like a daft request but I can assure you that this is a serious request. I am involved in a university project that is based over a year and we are analysing Internet mail, we are trying to ascertain trends and patterns to come up with some fairly accurate statistics regarding the type of mail that circulates around the internet, we know that 70% of all mail is spam but what we don’t know is what percentage of that spam accounts for chain mail (forwards of any type, something that has been forwarded to you, a piece of mail that has formed part of a chain).

Please send absolutely anything and everything that remotely resembles chain mail, forwards of any type (even the rude ones). My project is based over a year and I need one million forwards for this project to be a success, so please keep them coming and don’t worry I have some pretty huge mail boxes.

I would be grateful if you would be kind enough to forward this piece of mail to all your friends as I need as much help as I can get.

Please send all chain mail (forwards) to the following address. gmm_brwn_38@yahoo.co.uk

Everyone that helps will receive a copy of our results and findings in January of next year so please help if you can.

Thanks

Gemma

Reference No - (KK342XF07S0)

the skeptic in me thinks this is just a smart way of acquiring lots of valid email addresses to spam, since this person makes no mention of which faculty of which university...

 

[MedNez]

"Please send absolutely anything and everything that remotely resembles chain mail, forwards of any type (even the rude ones). My project is based over a year and I need one million forwards for this project to be a success, so please keep them coming and don’t worry I have some pretty huge mail boxes."

One million emails is a lot to go through by January next year, not to mention getting results typed up, checked, approved, and mailed out.

No doubt a hoax.

 

[Korn]

received this in my hotmail - what do you think?
the skeptic in me thinks this is just a smart way of acquiring lots of valid email addresses to spam, since this person makes no mention of which faculty of which university...

As she already has ur email, why not ask her what University shes doing this for and what faculty, then u could, if u wanted, contact the uni and ask whether this is real.
Cause there might be a team working on this project

 

[redslert]

you actually took the time to read your spam?
i just deleted straight away

 

[santaslayer]

I got that a long time ago. Deleted it. My Junk Filetr's full. Fuckers.



Anyway, on a side topic, I (used) to be a pretty good spammer myself on BoS.

 

[sladehk]

Whenever i see the word spam in an email, it indicates to me its spam. At least chains aren't as annoying as the fake *@sms.ac emails where i know my friends have been sucked intot eh trap. :<

 

[AntiHyper]

My e-mails are clean of spam.. since I only write my address to websites I trust.

EDIT: In fact I've never got spam in my whole life!! Although i get chain-mails

 

[SashatheMan]

but i bet u get breast enlargement emails

 

[AntiHyper]

i get neither