Interesting… Anti-Spam?
I received a mail that went like this:
Subject: **PLEASE HELP ME STOP SPAM AT YAHOO**
Hello,
My name is Tal Johnson. I have been against useless
spam email for quite sometime now. Recently my yahoo
account has been filled with numerous loads of
spam. In fact that is how I got your email
addresses, through the Carbon Copy (CC) header
that was sent to you of spam sent to me.
I am writing a petion to send to yahoo to invest more
man power into stopping this sick mail that I and you
have been getting. Aol and Hotmail have brought legal
suites against spammers. Lets work to get yahoo to do
the same.
Im asking you to support my cause if you are like me
and are sick and tired of getting junk email in our
boxes!
Please reply to me if you are interested in signing
my petion to yahoo to stop spam. Right now, I don’t
have much people, but hoping that you will help
my cause, if I get enough people I will start
writing out a petion that I will either send you
in the mail to sign, or online. Just reply and
I will keep you in the loop and send more information.
Let stop spam. You can forward this to any other
yahoo friends that you know that may be interested in
supporting my cause.
Thanks for your help in advance,
Tal Johnson
I was pretty intruiged until I went to his profile page on Yahoo. There it said Last Updated: 08/09/2004. And the page was empty. I thought as much. A novel way for people to identify themselves to yet another spammer…