A word from Buddha..?

phantazm · **Joined:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 187

Yesterday I received an email with the strange title: "All that we are ..."

I'm used to get boring spam, unreadable spam, absurd spam,
but this is rather a new kind: inscrutable spam.
Reading the mail didn't make me any wiser:

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything. What we think we become."

I googled the expression, and discovered that it was a quote from Buddha.
What the H*** are they trying to sell? I'm utterly clueless,
but perhaps it is just "all in my mind"...

NotBuyingIt · **Joined:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:22 pm **Posts:** 528

Perhaps Budduh is harvesting email addresses or preening his spam distribution list: Someone sends spam and then removes all the email addresses that "bounce" from the distribution list. The resulting list has a higher sales value on the black market for such things.

Sometimes web beacons will be concealed in the email, allowing the spammer to associate each recipient's IP address with the email address.

phantazm · **Joined:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 187

Yes, it could be something like that. However, I can't recall when I last got such a mysterious mail.
My mail address has been the same for years, and always public, deliberately.
So checking if it's active isn't necessary at all in my case...

In any case, spamming people that hates spam is really not the most clever thing to do.
Maybe "The mind is everything", but some spammers are rather "out of their mind"... ;-)

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

Screamer from India, my emphases added

indiantemple[email protected]
Received: from rediffmail.com (India)

Quote:

ATTENTION TO THIS MESSAGE,

THIS IS INDIAN WORLD SPIRITUAL TEMPLE COME FOR SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE. SUCH AS:
discovering your destiny, popularity, found your lost, political powers/contest and win, protection against sudden death, powers to parform signs and wounders,
due as i said,promotion at work, get a signe ahead of danger, protection from poison,business success,
back to sender, get and sustain true love, marry me alone,pass your exams with the best result, mental problems,wick errection, bariness,win pool/lottery, spiritual cash loan, be a member, iniciation for wealth, no side effect, no blood shed.

FILL YOUR REQUEST FORM BELOW:
YOUR FULL NAME.....................................................
YOUR AGE................................................................
YOUR LOCATION......................................................
YOUR COUNTRY.......................................................
YOUR REQUEST........................................................
CONTACT EMAIL: ([email protected])

THIS REQUES FORM IS TO ENABLE THE SPIRITUAL MESSINGERS TO REGISTER YOUR REQUEST AND TO CONSULT THE SPIRIT ON YOUR BEHALF. (FILL CURRECTLY)

NOTE: THE INDIAN TEMPLE DOES NOT INTERTAIN JOKERS OR UNSERIOUSE EMAILS.

REGARDS,TILL WE READ FROM YOU.

Nodus · **Joined:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:05 pm **Posts:** 2261

Red Dwarf wrote:

Quote:

NOTE: THE INDIAN TEMPLE DOES NOT INTERTAIN JOKERS OR UNSERIOUSE EMAILS.

Well, they already "intertained" me, guess I'm not a joker then... :lol:

phantazm · **Joined:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 187

I can understand that people want protection from poison, but do they also need protection from "business success"..?

And I'm not sure of what this really offers: "spiritual cash loan"..?

But, I guess I should calm down, I mean, all these offers include "no side effect, no blood shed."

Quite "intertaining" mail, indeed... ;-)

AlphaCentauri · **Joined:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:01 am **Posts:** 5915

I can kind of guess what "wick erection" was supposed to mean, though the image of a length of unwaxed candle wicking cord will stick with me now. (And they don't seem to say which of those conditions they will deliver for you and which they will deliver you from. :lol:

)

But what was "bariness" trying to say. Nudity? Becoming a lawyer? Becoming a baroness? "Hairiness" (growing more hair ... or getting a wax job)? Infertility (barreness)?

Too bad their deities can't deliver their devotees from spaminess.

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com.ph account ([email protected])
554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account ([email protected])

Yahoo! does not intertain jokers or unseriouse email scammers.

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