Week of 8/25/03:
So I consider myself a cynical person, and whether its my bitter outlook or life experience, I can usually smell a scam. Whether its some get quick scam or someone is trying to steal information, spam usually comes with sinister motives. However this message left me guessing. What the hell does this guy want? Perhaps he should have sent this email to the Alabama 10 commandments protestors...
-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:elsa@spiegel.de]
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 11:51 PM
To: StripedFromNetSol WhoIs info
Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Neeeded fsacsvc
Importance: High
-----BODY-----
Hello,
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.
Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.
Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any plans you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have a dimensional warp generator available, and are 100% certain you have a (safe secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply with a secure way to contact you. Send a separate email to me at:
removed@removed.void
Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to you.
Thank You
Brian Appel
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So does anyone have any guesses what this does? Well whether you press 'yes' or 'no' the page is proccessed on a page that is part of this 'fethard.biz' domain. I imagine they run through charges on your card. Now how can I possibly begin to tell you how silly this email is. Here is an email from a stranger that states that you are a child porn webmaster... or something else where you deal with dirty money. So now I am supposed to go through the following thought process:
"Okay honest mistake, I better straighten this out by giving them my credit card info and expiration date." What is even more ridiculous is how completely amatuer this looks and sounds. Aside from the obvious mis-spellings, the form looks like a webpage created in a kindergarten class. The ICQ address does make me wonder if some poor Shlemazel is getting a million nasty ICQ IM's (although the people dumb enough to think a person would put their own real ICQ ID are the same schmucks who would complete and submit the form). posted by Keith at 7:01 PM
