Anthony DeRobertis had the gall to say: > > On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 17:02 US/Eastern, david albarran wrote: > > >hi! i want to know what this is about. and if i won a prize tell me as > >soon as you can i¥m the 50,000,000 th user, so show me the money. > > OK, we get a fair number of these. So do some other people. None of the > claimants ever seem to respond when asked about the details. From > googling, here are some other references: [snip]
> Personally, I sort of suspect address collection or other scam. I > suspect this because of all the messages we've gotten, and all I can > find on the web, the are quite similar in ways you would not expect, > such as putting the commas in "50,000,000". No one wrote "50000000" or > "50.000.000". I'd expect that if these were messages generated by > confused lusers, we'd see more variation in them. I agree totally - and I believe it's also the case with mails asking about a random set of well-known windows buzz-words (e.g. driver, cd, win, attachment, etc). IMHO, it's spammers abusing the "Finally - a question *I* can help with!" feeling of low/middle-ability users on The Other OS. I'm always a little dubious about telling bogofilter that they're spam, as they include valid nouns which might easily come up on lists. Ideas, anyone? jc
