[clug] Birthday Calendar

[Kim Holburn]

Yeah and what's the main question people ask if they're trying to 
establish your identity, say over the phone?


On 2004 Aug 12, , at 7:24 AM, Daniel McNamara wrote:

> Apparently not.
>
> Domain has been registered for some time and a quick Google search 
> shows
> several refrences to it from various places that actually use places 
> like
> this.
>
> Looks like spamadvertising of the site. My guess it's a ploy to 
> increase
> their mailing list base. Basically you send an email like this to a 
> list
> on the basis that at least one person will follow the link and then
> provide their email address. No doubt the fine print of the site 
> probably
> states they can do what they like with email addresses submitted to the
> site.
>
> Cheers
>
> Daniel
>
>
>> Interesting spam.  Some new kind of phishing?
>>
>> On 2004 Aug 11, , at 11:09 PM, Karthikeyan Ramachandran wrote:
>>> From karthi82_2000 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 11 23:08:39 2004
>>> Received: from dp.samba.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>>> 	by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD7F16398C
>>> X-Original-To: linux at lists.samba.org
>>> Delivered-To: linux at lists.samba.org
>>> Received: from mail03.birthdayalarm.com (mail03.birthdayalarm.com
>>> 	[65.19.128.163])
>>> 	by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D0C162BD7
>>> 	for <linux at lists.samba.org>; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:08:16 +0000 (GMT)
>>> Received: by mail03.birthdayalarm.com (PowerMTA(TM) v2.0r13) id
>>> h38d40059m09;
>>> 	Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:08:15 +0000 (envelope-from
>>> 	<karthi82_2000 at yahoo.com>)
>>> Message-ID: <720319.1092229771968.JavaMail.Administrator at win02>
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:09:31 +0000 (GMT)
>>> From: Karthikeyan Ramachandran <karthi82_2000 at yahoo.com>
>>> To: linux at lists.samba.org
>>> Mime-Version: 1.0
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>> X-Topics: default
>>> Subject: [clug] Birthday Calendar
>>> X-BeenThere: linux at lists.samba.org
>>> X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4
>>> Precedence: list
>>> List-Id: Canberra Linux User Group <linux.lists.samba.org>
>>> X-Sender-Domain: lists.samba.org
>>> X-Spam-Score: (1.474)
>>> X-Spam-Tests: CLICK_BELOW,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS
>>> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42
>>> X-Spam-Level: *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Please click on the link below and enter your birthday into my
>>> calendar. It's quick, easy and you'll be helping me out:-).
>>>
>>> http://www.BirthdayAlarm.com/dob2/22000841a676646665b150458512c905
>>>
>>> Karthikeyan
>>>
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>>>
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