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(Message started by: Little Deb on Jan 25^th, 2004, 3:04pm)

Title: Let's help a kid out!
Post by Little Deb on Jan 25^th, 2004, 3:04pm

Got this email from one of my friends. Since we are all from everywhere and all countries, he should have the best turn out of all kids!!!

Thanks!

Subject: Fw: Logan is one of our "local " kids
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:54:56 -0600
>
> > Subject: Logan is one of our "local " kids
>
>
> In the interest of education...
>
> Subject: Please help Logan with his Science Fair
> Project
>
> Please Help Logan
>
> Hello!!
> My name is Logan, and I am a student in Avilla,
> Indiana. Which is just north
> of Fort Wayne. I am working on my "Science Fair
> Project" due February 01,
> 2004. I want to see how fast 1 e-mail can travel in
> 7 days. I am keeping track
> on how many e-mails I receive back, and from what
> cities, states, and
> countries they are from. I hope you will help!!
>
> There are only 2 simple steps that will help me
> track this e-mail:
> 1. Please click on this address:
> abuggybugworld@aol.com In the subject
> line of the e-mail, please include your city, state,
> and country. You do not
> need to include your name. Please respond only one
> time.
>
> 2. Please forward this e-mail to everyone on your
> mailing list.
>
> If you receive this e-mail after January 30, 2004,
> please disregard it,
> since my experiment will have ended.
>
> Thank you VERY much for your help!!!!!
>
> Logan

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by Brian_Y on Jan 25^th, 2004, 3:18pm

This is a non-worm virus. It's a way to clog up e-mail servers. Delete it.

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by cootie on Jan 25^th, 2004, 3:22pm

YUP........Brian is correct and beat me to it Pam

Sheesh I spelled yer name wrong Brian.....WTF is wrong with me..................good grief............thank gawd for MODIFY......sumtimes I skere myself

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by Little Deb on Jan 25^th, 2004, 3:28pm

hhhmmmmm..............ok, well ignore this thread and all my emails!!!

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by brain_cramps on Jan 25^th, 2004, 4:40pm

It seems our "Logan" is collecting emails to be used in conjunction with spam.

I wonder if he'll reply to all 100,000 I'm going to send him. ;;D

grant

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by cootie on Jan 25^th, 2004, 4:49pm

Long time ago I got an email from a little girl 'supposidly' and she was doin a school project similar to Logan's deal. She went on and on about her family and how proud she was of them blah blah blah......then there was an attatched link to help her out. Dam.....it was a link to a construction co's web site that built luxury houses which was "the point or OBJECT" beind the entire farse of an email. The site claimed to get millions of hits a day too........yeah.....involuntary hits by trickery ! Nothin like a spam hit Pam

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by Svenn on Jan 25^th, 2004, 4:50pm

just a hoax
delete it
Svenn

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by fubar on Jan 25^th, 2004, 5:57pm

Email rules to live by:

1) Any email that asks you to send an email to anybody you don't know is probably a scam designed to either cripple that email account or collect your valid and valuable email address for spamming purposes. If you want to be charitable, supportive, whatever... just do it somewhere else.

1) Never open an email attachment unless you expected it to come to you and you know exactly who sent it and why.

1) Always check with your 'friend' who sent you an unsolicited email with an attachment before you open it. Virii and worms are sent from your closest friends when *they* get infected, so don't trust unsolicited email until you know it's there for a reason.

1) Try to use a different email program other than Outlook (any version). It's not just that Outlook is poorly designed (debateable but probably true), it's just that Outlook gets the most attention from hackers and therfore has the most exploits. Thunderbird is quite nice, free, open source and easy to install and use.

1) Buy yourself a domain name. Why? Because with your own domain name, you can have a billion email addresses that all actually arrive in the same email box. For example, I have nunley.org and a bunch of others, but any address I give from nunley.org (me@nunley.org, amazon@nunley.org, amex@nunley.org, etc.) all go to my main mailbox. The cool thing is I know for certain WHO it came from because they only know me as the address I gave only to them. Then, if spam starts coming in on that address, I can simply delete any mail addressed to that email address (example, delete all amex@nunleys.com incoming mail because they sold my address to spammers).

1) Never give out you favotite email address to anybody. Always use email forwarding to get your email to that address. This is the only way to really keep spam and crap from getting to your true email identity.

NOTICE that I put all rules as rule #1. That wasn't an accident.

If anyone wants to know how to do all of this, I'll walk you through it. I have done this since the early 80's and I do not get much spam at all these days. I get about 1000 emails a day (no joke, mostly from security mailing lists and forums) but I see maybe 1-2 spam emails a day. Spam Assassin takes care of anything that wanders into my real email.

-Fu

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by jonny on Jan 25^th, 2004, 6:18pm

Well well well.......Dont ever believe anything you read on the net unless it can be backed up, Not even if I "Your King" types it......781-985-6500....my back up

Hey Deb......wanna buy a bridge?.....LMMFAO ;;D

...................................jonny

Title: Re: Let's help a kid out!
Post by cootie on Jan 26^th, 2004, 12:46pm

Anybody wanna buy some snow...I'll give ya a real good snow spam job Pam [smiley=mellow.gif]