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Totally pointless spam email! : x |
Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
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From: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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I recieved this email this morning. It's obviously a spam one, but what's the point??!?!?! 
If you look at it there's no links, it doesn't appear to be selling anything, just a bit of what looks like a business report and then some corny sayings:
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| Breaking news alert issue - big news coming.
Allixon International Corporation
A X C P . P K
We give it to you again as a gift. This company is doing
incredible things. They have cash and have made great
strategic aquisitions. Current price is $4.70.
Short term projection is $8. This company has dropped
big new's in the past. Who's to say they don't have
another big one.
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
A Multitasking Timex Sinclair
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Live life to the fullest.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Learn to obey before you command.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
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Can anyone tell me what the point of an email like this is, and has anyone ever recieved anything similar?
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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From: England
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Yeah, I've recieved tons of similar emails lately and some of them are even more baffeling than that!
The secret is in the first paragraph, they're trying to get you to invest in shares in a bogus company. You'll probably recieve a few follow ups to it within the next few days, the last one usually contains contact details.
The garbage bit is because the emails were produced by people who don't speak english very well. It's supposed to be 'words of wisdom' to encourage you to invest in this company, but of course it's just cut 'n' paste cliches from various crappy e-books on 'how to succeed in business' and such like 
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methylated_spirit
Joined: Jul 07, 2004
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From: Bonnie Scotland
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Or, it could just be random crap, with a virus embedded in it, make sure your anti-virus is up to date
Hello, Scroto!
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Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
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From: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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Thankfully there doesn't seem to have been a virus or any attachments, it could well be a bogus company for people to try to buy shares in or something.
I wonder if those little sayings are put in to try to fool spam blockers or something?
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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Rocky B.
Joined: Jan 15, 2005
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From: Leicester, England
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Wow, i actually got exactly the same e-mail this morning 
Some-one must have us on the same list 
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Posted: 2005-10-12 10:23
