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. -- Nico Golde | nico@xxxxxxxxx | 310777820@ICQ | nion@xxxxxxx http://www.ngolde.de | GnuPG Key: http://www.ngolde.de/gpg/nico_golde.gpg Fingerprint | FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87 E549 7364 7CFF vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxreT-Tavba/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?"
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