Re: have you seen such a spam?

[Joao Gouveia <tharbad () kaotik org>]

Hi,

I would say that it's intention is to gather valid email addresses. If
the subject/content are "atractive" enough, it might induce people into
replying, not knowing that they just got their mail address added to a
probably huge spam database.

JG

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:30, Nico Golde wrote:
> hi,
> today the debian-mentors list received such a spam message:
>    Hello:
>
>    I'd like to request for someone to sponsor the following unofficial
>    packages I have: snes9express (1.39-beta) - a GUI frontend for SNES9x
>    (as far as I know this is still an orphaned package); and visualboy
>    advance (a gameboy/gameboy color/gameboy advance emulator for Linux).
>
>    The said packages can be obtained in this apt source location:
>    anything
>    that u want to send,send it by this below.
>
>    P.O box 1103 agodi
>    Ibadan,
>    Oyo state,
>    Nigeria.
>
> At the time i read it first i haven't noticed that this was a spam.
> It is a spam bot which greps trhough mailing list archives, greps some
> pieces of the text in a mailing list message and inserts his spam text.
> Here's the original posting:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200302/msg00287.html
>
> have you ever seen such a spam?
> what i don't understand is, how somebody can make money with such a spam
> mail?
> regards nico
> p.s. for all german people here on the list.
> there is a very good funny story about baiting the nigeria connection in
> the actual c't magzine.

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