[RESOLVED] Email Harvesting - Nice Try

[Nix]

Got this email at home yesterday

From: Jordan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 January 2007 4:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [iiSpam] Your email address



Hi nixhomeemailaddress

Your email address was contained in one of the recent chain mails we received, as your address was in one of these chain mails we thought you might have more that you would be willing to send to us. We are setting up a new website (www.chain-mail.net) that will detail all the different types of mail that gets forwarded around the internet and how many people they actually reach, so please help us by sending us all the chain mail you have, anything that has been forwarded, absolutely anything even the rude ones.

We really would be grateful if you and your friends could help us get this site up and running so please forward this email on to as many friends as you can and send us all the chain mail you have yourself and keep them coming. Everyone that helps will get a free login to the site when it is up and running.

The types of forwards we are after, absolutely anything will do really so long as it has been forwarded.

Please send all forwards to the following address: [email protected]

Funnies
Jokes
Office gossip/tickle tackle
Pictures
Video clips
Messages
Information/Communication forwards

Thanks for your help.

Jordan


Chain-Mail.net, Staples Corner Business Park, London, NW2 7JP


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I'm tempted to just send them all the junk mail sans other peoples addresses but I really can't be bothered.

Maybe just bombard them with a few hundred emails with 5Mb attachments just to fill their in box.

Of course it could be legit......yeah right.

Edited to deactivate links (sorry Nix!) -Lgbpop

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To say this is a bold try would be an understatement.
Thanks for sharing Nix. An unusual addy!!!

[Nix]

An unusual addy!!!

Mine has been changed to protect me from moer spamming.

The spammers has not so hopefully they will get spammed galore.

[Nix]

Check out their site it sure tells you alot http://www.chain-mail.net/

[Nix]

And there's only 20 hits for chain-mail.net in google and none of them relate to what it purports to be about.

eg this

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Yeah that's what I meant by "unusual addy". Surely that would have thrown them off track.
Amazing how our addresses can and do get harvested. Hope they cause you no troubles or grief.