_________ SWAT MAGAZINE ISSUE THIRTY FOUR OCTOBER __________ / \___________________________________________/ \ / Spam and SHIT \ / -=The Firestarter=- \ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Well i dunno about the rest of you, but at times i find spam quite amusing, this one was no exception. Anyhow here it is (i've forwarded it to all of the relevent abuse ppl at hotmail and numerous other services inc. this persons ISP). From: hello To: Subject: Make a million in 90 days MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [212.1.141.37] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBBBB7A4C0072D82197B1D4018D25064D0; Sat Oct 21 17:05:53 2000 From ukmedia@hotmail.com Sat Oct 21 17:06:42 2000 Message-Id: <419.436821.02763819ukmedia@hotmail.com> THIS IS NO JOKE SEND A £5 NOTE TO THIS ADDRESS TO BECOME VERY RICH I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOU IF YOU ARE IN THE US THEN SEND A $10 NOTE TO THE ADDRESS M A M PO BOX 26 HALIFAX HX1 WT ENGLAND TO BE REMOVED OFF OUR LIST CLICK BELOW www.fastpagepro.co.uk/remove IF THE LINK DOES NOT WORK THEN EMAIL ME AT THE BOTTOM AND I WILL REMOVE YOU. notonthelist@hotmail.com Ok so this is an obvious scam, but why not have a little fun, this guys obviously shelled out between 40 and 50 quid for a PO box for the stupid to send him cash to. Not that i expect that he got much, so instead of letting him waste his money, i decided to invest a around 50p. So a quick trip to the post office to collect 2 first class stamps. Taking them home i attatched them to one of the many padded envelopes that i use to send out SWAT CD's (or use to until i got my hands on special CD postage boxes). Anyway, after writing down the address on a lable and fixing it nice and firmly to the envelope i lined this inside of the envelope with plastic, well, i didn't want anything to leak out now did i :o). Actually i didn't need to do that much lining since they are already pretty much lined. Now it was time to load a "payload", since i didn't know of any decent road kill lying around where i live, and i wasn't prepared to mow down a cat in a stolen vehicle since i am quite fond of animals (sick ppl can get THAT idea out of there head RIGHT NOW ). I deceided to quickly inspect my garden, woohoo, dog shit (well it happens when you own a dog). So in it went (yes i used gloves), might as well load it up a bit more nasty items, so in go a handful of maggots that where acquired. So after it was nicely taped up it was sent to the above address :o) I hope he enjoyed it. Other nice things where a load of aluminium cans inside a padded envelope with a second class stamp on, shame he had to pay the extra as well as a handling fee. Also if everyone here bought a packate of 50 cheap envelopes and put a few bits of scrap paper in them and labled it "FREE POST" i bet it would cost a fortune (/me makes a note to buy 100 envelopes in the morning) Well Enjoy!