On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:42:09 PM, David Funk wrote:
So the intensity of the spam bombing is inversely proportional to the local computer community 'clue level'. This tends to indicate that there are more clue-less American windows llusers than there are German. No surprise there, however a bit counter-productive given the original perps probable desired results. ;)
IIRC Sober P advertised free World Cup tickets or something like that. That would tend to get people to open the virus spams in Europe, but probably wouldn't mean sh!t here in the U.S. where probably fewer than 1 in 10 people has any idea what a "World Cup" is. Superbowl they've heard of. World Cup not. ;-)
Actually, only German domain recipients received the World Cup messages. The English versions were things like:
Re: Your Password Re: Registration Confirmation Re: Your email was blocked Re: mailing error