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#1 Mackilroy

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 04:00 PM

Or so I assume.

Today when I was checking my e-mail, I found this conspicuously near the top, and in all caps at that.

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From: DAYZERS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL <infodayzerslotto@netscape.net>
Reply-To: infodayzerslotto@netscape.net
To: mackilroy@macpunk.com
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
Date: Sat 02/05/05 08:34 AM

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
DAYZERS EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
www.dayzers.nl
REF: IJPL/544259609/HR1
BATCH: BST/91993/A
ATTENTION:
AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the
long awaited results of the DAYZERS LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM
held on the 20th Dec 2004.You were entered as
dependent clients with:
Reference Number:NM/BF3534654/FB13,
and Batch number NM/572655/KOP.
Your email address attached to the ticket number:
239707 that drew the lucky winning number, which
consequently won the sweeptake in the first
category, in four parts.
You have been approved for a payment of
500,000.00euros(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS.)in cash
credited to file reference
number:I__________________.This is from a total cash
prize of five milliom euros shared among the ten
international winners in first categories.
congratulations!!!!!
All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 50,000 (Fifty thousand)
names of email users around the world, as part of our
international promotion program.
Due to mixed up of some names and addresses, we ask
that you keep this award personal, till your claims
has been processed and your funds remitted to you.
This is part of our security measures to avoid double
claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the
situation by other participants or impersonators.
To begin your claim,do file for the release of your
winning by contacting your/our accredited agent
MR STEVEN FRASER.
DAYZERS E.MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
TEL:+31-629-347-160.
FAX:+31-847-300-602.
Email: infodayzerslotto@netscape.net
website... www.dayzers.nl
They are your agent, and responsible for the
processing and transfer of your winnings to you.
YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS________________(keep
personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed not
later than (20-2-05).failure to claim your winning/
fund will be added to next 10,000.000 euros
international lottery program.Furthermore, should there be
any change in your address, do inform your claims
agent as soon as possible.
Once again, Congratulations.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Jackie Inge.
Co-ordinator International.

This e-mail makes no sense to me. In Europe, do they put the day before the month (example DD/MM/YYYY)? I'm assuming this is spam, so I'm not going to reply to it or look at the website, but I'd like your opinions.

I've never heard of this group, either. Has anyone here heard of it?

I must be fodder for strange e-mails or something...

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#2 Shrout1

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 04:08 PM

Look here:

http://www.talkaboutspam.com/group/alt.kil...ages/13152.html

I don't know if that site mentions anything of use, other than the fact that you weren't the only one :-P

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 04:09 PM

That's spam. No doubt about it.
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#4 Mackilroy

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 04:14 PM

Shrout1, on Feb 7 2005, 05:08 PM, said:

Look here:

http://www.talkaboutspam.com/group/alt.kil...ages/13152.html

Ah. Thank you. A friend of mine here at work agrees. He theorized that the person(s) who sent it to me are thinking that if their name spreads, the group that provides them online service will give them free hosting or something along those lines.

Again, thanks.

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#5 Lektor

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 04:19 PM

Mackilroy, on Feb 7 2005, 09:00 PM, said:

In Europe, do they put the day before the month (example DD/MM/YYYY)?

Yes, we do.

And yes, it is spam.

I was looking at my G Mail account today, an account I haven't used, and haven't even told anyone it exists. I logeed in today to find that I have got 24 spam messages in the last 30 days. Impressive, no?

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#6 Cippy

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 06:25 PM

Lektor, on Feb 7 2005, 04:19 PM, said:

You crazy Europeans with your metric system and extra u's.

Quite impressive with your spam though.

That's spam. Welcome to the dark side of the interent...

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 06:32 PM

Destroyer E, on Feb 7 2005, 11:25 PM, said:

You crazy Europeans with your metric system and extra u's.

To the best of my knowledge, America is the only country in the world not to put the day before the month in numerical dating, and (along with Zimbabwe), the only country to cling to the archaic imperial system. Perhaps those Europeans aren't so crazy after all...

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#8 Guest_Swithich_*

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 06:45 PM

Sundered Angel, on Feb 7 2005, 11:32 PM, said:

Actually we don't cling. We constantly reinvent the world. Meanwhile the europeans are trying to convert our accomplishment into metric.

Actually, I almost never get spam. Then again, I only use my email for personal, person to person chats.

#9 Trah

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 07:18 PM

I have two addresses, my spam account, and real account. In just over a year, I have received 0 spam in the spam account, and probably 3000 spam in the spam account.

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 07:24 PM

Swithich, on Feb 7 2005, 03:45 PM, said:

Actually we don't cling. We constantly reinvent the world. Meanwhile the europeans are trying to convert our accomplishment into metric.

How is Imperial not archaic? And how does it make more sense to have people worrying about learning the random patterns of how many feet in a mile, etc.? Not to mention that the scientific community operates in SI units, and having scientists and related folks converting from SI to Imperial is fraught with possible pitfalls.

Or is it a sign of Americans' greater intelligence that they know how many feet are in a mile, and how many ounces in a gallon, rather than having an intuitive system that's easy to figure out?

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#11 moonunit4eva

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:12 PM

Sounds strange to me...too easy.

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#12 Mackilroy

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:28 PM

Trah, on Feb 7 2005, 08:18 PM, said:

I have two addresses, my spam account, and real account. In just over a year, I have received 0 spam in the spam account, and probably 3000 spam in the spam account.

Wow. I wish my e-mail stats could be that impressive...

..but then again, I have 300 unread e-mails because of the Apple SciTech mailing list...

Does anyone here read MacAddict? And if so, do you remember which issue it was that Rik Myslewski talked about spam in his Editor's letter? I think it was a 2002 issue, but I don't remember which one...it was funny, though.

Your title says it all, moon.

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#13 moonunit4eva

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:48 PM

I'm super?

I get all my spam in a separate folder with yahoo. It's so nice.

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:52 PM

Mackilroy, on Feb 7 2005, 06:28 PM, said:

Does anyone here read MacAddict? And if so, do you remember which issue it was that Rik Myslewski talked about spam in his Editor's letter? I think it was a 2002 issue, but I don't remember which one...it was funny, though.

I remeber that issue....

Did you get the issue with the Shut Down about spam headers?

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 09:14 PM

Mackilroy, on Feb 7 2005, 08:28 PM, said:

Wow. I wish my e-mail stats could be that impressive...

I get between 6 and 10 spam per day, so that is where I got my rough, 3000 number. The 0-spam for my real account is true, because it isn't too hard to count to zero

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 09:35 PM

Sundered Angel, on Feb 7 2005, 04:32 PM, said:

I believe several asian countries (such as Japan) do month-day-year.

Trah, on Feb 7 2005, 05:18 PM, said:

I have two addresses, my spam account, and real account. In just over a year, I have received 0 spam in the spam account, and probably 3000 spam in the spam account.

I've had a yahoo account from 1997 that I foolishly gave out way too much. Still, I only get about 150 spam mails per month, some of which are from some math teacher who insists I'm in her class <- I've never heard of her before.

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 10:01 PM

Moon: Yep.

TheJournalist: No, I don't. My membership has been rather sporadic over the past nine years or so (I've been subscribing on and off since the second issue). Could you be so kind as to point out which issue this is to me? Perhap I have it and just don't know.

Avatara: Really? I'll have to check on that.

Has anyone here met a real-life spammer? And laughed at them, or something like that? I haven't, so I was wondering if anyone has.

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 10:55 PM

:checks his MacAddict shelf:

November 04, number 99.

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#19 moonunit4eva

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 11:35 PM

Whoa..you're like my dad and Consumer Reports.

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 12:31 AM

Sundered Angel, on Feb 7 2005, 06:32 PM, said:

I believe Liberia and Myanmar still use non-metric systems.

moonunit4eva, on Feb 7 2005, 11:35 PM, said:

Whoa..you're like my dad and Consumer Reports.

Or myself and my neatly organized seven year collection of Scientific American.

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 01:33 AM

Well, at least you're not getting e-mails concerning requests for assistance from Liberians or South Africans who all want entry to the U.S... And who all seem conspicuously wealthy. It's annoying that spammers don't realize certain things are giving it away before we read it:

1. It is declaring us a 'winner.' We all know that everyone on the internet hates each other's guts.

2. Using all Caps-lock is usually reserved for out-of-hand arguments on AIM.

3. Freakishly odd e-mail addresses that always seem to be terminated three days after they send you the message.

An example:

DEER SIR,

It is my most pleasure to inform you that you have won an improbable amount of money in a contest you never weere a participant in. Your prize money amounts to 500,000 British pounds. Please give us your name, home/cell telephone numbers, your home address, and the contacts of any of your business associates.

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#22 Avatara

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 04:04 AM

My personal favorite was the one that had a subject line asking: "Do you have a computer?"

#23 Jon Pearse

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 06:02 AM

Cleindori, on Feb 8 2005, 12:24 AM, said:

Beh. I'm a scientist, and I talk about pints of milk, my weight in stone, my height in feet and inches, and the ditance to uni in miles (all one of them). I mean, I'd far rather drink 2 pints of milk, weigh 13 stone, be 6'1" tall, and walk a mile to uni every morning... than drink 1.136L, weigh 82kg, be 185.42cm tall, and walk 1.614km to uni. If anything, it makes for nicer numbers.
Yup, I was a fish out of water in Canada this summer - "look, a speed limit of 90... no... wait. OK, no wonder this damn country seems so big". I mean, hell, if you're going to go all metric on us, why not adopt metric time... I mean, conventional time has factors of 60, 60, 24, 7, and 365/366. That's way too complicated for people who don't understand 16oz/1lb, 14lb/1st...

I'm a Brit. We invented Imperial here (hence the name, dammit), and I'm not going to use this stupid 'metric' stuff unless I'm forced to.

Rah!

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#24 Lektor

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 07:51 AM

Jon Pearse, on Feb 8 2005, 11:02 AM, said:

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We use an interesting combination of the two at work, can get very annoying. But it is true, some things seem better measured in imperial.

That said, it sucks in its use of bases. Base 12 is horrible, but its not even like it's all base 12, you've got base 14, base 16 and I'm sure soemthing is base 17. All of which are just a pain to work in. I just dislike having to remember one system for one unit, and another for another. Makes conversion a pain...

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#25 Mackilroy

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 10:58 AM

Lektor, on Feb 8 2005, 08:51 AM, said:

That said, it sucks in its use of bases. Base 12 is horrible, but its not even like it's all base 12, you've got base 14, base 16 and I'm sure soemthing is base 17. All of which are just a pain to work in. I just dislike having to remember one system for one unit, and another for another. Makes conversion a pain...

Would you rather use base 6?

TheJournalist, nope, I don't have that issue. Maybe it's online? I'll have to check.

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