TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Last Laugh! Your House at P.O. Box 4621

Last Laugh! Your House at P.O. Box 4621

Customer Service (customerservice@mortgagequotenetwork.net)
Tue, 24 May 2005 12:16:48 -0400

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Fished (or do you say 'phished') out of
my ever-full, always overflowing spam bucket this morning, on my way
to put out this issue of the Digest. As we can see by a cursory glance
through the binary code below, it is a spam-thingy. PAT]

MThlIE1vcnRnYWelIFF1b3RlIE5ldHdvcmsNCkEgUGVyc29uYWwgQXBwcm9hY2ggdG8gT25saW5l
IEJvcnJvd2luZw0KDQpHZXQgYSBGcmVlIE1vcnRnYWdlIFF1b3RlIQ0KaHR0cDovL3d3dy5tb3J0
(and several _hundred_ more lines like the above).

I bashed the rest of it, and altered the above just enough to cause it
to lose its punch so none of _you_ would possibly 'inherit' it in your
travels around the net today. That's how I say 'Thank you for visiting
our web site today'; I spam you and perchance hand you a virus 'souvenier'
to take home and show or give to your friends. Of course many netters
would contend it is impossible to define 'offensive' or 'malicious'
and still others would contend the 'internet does not exist; it is
only a collection of sites, etc'.

But my observation is this: Note the original subject line, 'Your
House at P.O. Box 4621'. I would like you to know (a) 'Box 4621' in
Skokie, Illinois is a very old snail- mail address I used when I lived
in Skokie (metro Chicago area) about _ten years ago_; that is the age
and quality of the mailing lists these spammers often times use. I'll
bet whoever he bought the mailing list from told him 'a new, fresh
list with x-gazillion email names and addresses' on it. From what I
can gather, its another of those 'you have qualified to receive a
mortgage loan' things. My second observation, (b) is the guy does not
seem to be very bright. He could not or did not even think it through
and use an _actual house address_ (such as 'Your House on Niles Center
Road') or something similar to at least try to make it a message worth
reading.

I hope that at least occassionally, some of these spammers who
sincerely bought their lists, etc thinking there was money to be made
on the internet grow discouraged, and give up their efforts voluntarily
and find other uses for their computers. Or is that too much to ask?

PAT

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