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[dolari]

Lookie what came in the EMail:

GPSI Announces Market Attack Into $1 Trillion Market!

Global Payment Solutions
Symbol: GPSI
Price: $0.03

GPSI announced its plans to address the huge influx of immigrant workers
into the US that need banking solutions that they otherwise would not
qualify for. This market is expected to represent over $1 Trillion
dollars to be managed by 2008. GPSI provides viable solutions to this
market. This is hot, read the news and watch for more Monday! Get on
GPSI first thing Monday!

Standard spam, right? Guess what the subject line was?

Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:29:13 +0200
From: Hijacked account
To: jenn@dolari.org
Subject: If you refuse, you will be killed.

Comments

So...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

...did you refuse?!

Re: So...

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Of course I did. And I was killed quite quickly.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Fscking spammers are getting more and more arrogant.
security@sec.gov is the proper place to forward pump-and-dump scams.

[labrat78.livejournal.com]

Talk about an incentive ???

[mundanecircus.livejournal.com]

I take it that spammers are getting more and more desperate, especially coming from a "company" entering a "market" that's almost twice the federal deficit (I think).

How is this spammer going to kill millions of recipients of this e-mail if they don't comply, without using nukes or any WMDs?

One spam e-mail I would like to see is "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse...", with a threat of a horse's head in your bed if you ignore it. Wouldn't that be great?

By the way, this is my first LJ post -- I'm Steve, creator of "The Mundane Circus" (Jenn knows me already).

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

No, no, what they meant by "$1 Trillion dollars" was that this was measured in a currency that has trillion-dollar dollars. So I think they meant Zimbabwean dollars.

I mean, seriously, I don't think recent immigrants honestly contribute an amount equivalent to a sixth of the U.S. gross domestic product, either in remittances to their countries of origin or any other way.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

You seem surprised that a spammer doesn't tell the truth...

[nathan-r.livejournal.com]

I refused, and I was killed! Don't make the same mistake I did!

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

*guffaw*

I'm pretty sure that crosses the line from 'annoying' to 'federal offense under the Patriot Act'. XD