Spam because of the gmail thread


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This is what i received in my hotmail inbox today :

Hello there!

I was surfing the web and found your email address on www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/.

I found you are looking for a gmail invite.

If you still need it, I would sell it to you.

You can pay on paypal. I want USD 8 for it.

If you want it, please send me an reply to eladoaccount.com

John

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Quick Facts about gmail:

Cost: Free

Storage: 1,000 megabytes

Access: Free automatic forwarding and POP3 access

The email came from [email protected], with the reply address at [email protected]

This obviously is made by a bot, because i'm on the gmail thread GIVING invites for free...

Anybody else received such a email?? :no:

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you shouldn't go posting your email in a forum post. that's what the email button is for.

if you're gonna post it, at least take out the '@' and the '.'

such as: some_dude - at - hotmail - dot - com

You can't blame Neowin, since bots scour all websites looking for email addresses.

haha give credit to the guy, he's making money :D

i wouln't like receiving that type of eMail though, but HEY you have megabytes by the hundreds! spam me! w00t haha i can take you all down muhaha

:no: kidding :yes:

you shouldn't go posting your email in a forum post.  that's what the email button is for.

if you're gonna post it, at least take out the '@' and the '.'

such as: some_dude - at - hotmail - dot - com

You can't blame Neowin, since bots scour all websites looking for email addresses.

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Dude !exactly, my email is nowhere on the site. They use the "send email" fonction of neowin's forum.

I always say " PM for gmail invites, i have 4 left" or something.

This is why this email troubled me a bit

haha give credit to the guy, he's making money :D

i wouln't like receiving that type of eMail though, but HEY you have megabytes by the hundreds! spam me! w00t haha i can take you all down muhaha

:no:  kidding  :yes:

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by god, you're right! so we've decided to dress him up as robin hood-

Robin_Hood.jpg

scamming the 'rich' to feed the frat - a quest for the golden keg

so we say scam on mighty robin- and your mighty fraternity friends, scam on :)

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