On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finally did what I should have done: Googled for it. The consensus > appears to be that it is a spam technique: Spammer sends out an inventive > email like this. Curious people, knowing it obviously is not a legit > commercial effort, go to the URL or reply or whatever, just to see what > happens. Bingo -- the spammer now knows your address is "live".
Maybe the "I'll pay you $5,000" part hooks in the easily conned, but I have to imagine that the bulk of that email contains terms/phrases that would scare off 90% of the recipients... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss