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    Marc Clifton
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    Oh, this is classic: Dear Valued Member, According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. http://www.gmail.com/confirm.php?account=... After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Gmail Abuse Department With the underlined linke actually directing to [http]libraryonline[dot]com[slash] confirmation_form[dot]exe (my [] for the actual chars.) :sigh: [edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit] Marc

    Thyme In The Country

    People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
    There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
    People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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      Oh, this is classic: Dear Valued Member, According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. http://www.gmail.com/confirm.php?account=... After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Gmail Abuse Department With the underlined linke actually directing to [http]libraryonline[dot]com[slash] confirmation_form[dot]exe (my [] for the actual chars.) :sigh: [edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit] Marc

      Thyme In The Country

      People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
      There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
      People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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      kornman00
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      Thanks for the heads up. The spam filter didn't realize what it was though? I've only got one piece of spam mail in my inbox in the last 4+ months...

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        Thanks for the heads up. The spam filter didn't realize what it was though? I've only got one piece of spam mail in my inbox in the last 4+ months...

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        Dan Neely
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        I get one or two (mostly image spams) a day, but that includes both 1.5 and 4yo public accounts, both, especially the latter with it's usenet presence, have had plenty of exposure to spam harvesters. The older account had anywhere between 5 and 25 leaking through it's providers filters when I redirected it to gmail. I'm still finding old fora accounts tied to it that I want to bring back often enough to maintain its stay of execution.

        -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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          Oh, this is classic: Dear Valued Member, According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. http://www.gmail.com/confirm.php?account=... After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Gmail Abuse Department With the underlined linke actually directing to [http]libraryonline[dot]com[slash] confirmation_form[dot]exe (my [] for the actual chars.) :sigh: [edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit] Marc

          Thyme In The Country

          People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
          There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
          People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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          Chris Losinger
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          Marc Clifton wrote:

          and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website

          i just got a spam telling me that it's time to pay my eBay fees ($1.06 ha!). it links to "www all4fitness co uk". i bet they fool a lot people anyway.

          image processing toolkits | batch image processing | blogging

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            Oh, this is classic: Dear Valued Member, According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. http://www.gmail.com/confirm.php?account=... After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Gmail Abuse Department With the underlined linke actually directing to [http]libraryonline[dot]com[slash] confirmation_form[dot]exe (my [] for the actual chars.) :sigh: [edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit] Marc

            Thyme In The Country

            People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
            There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
            People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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            Chris Meech
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            Marc Clifton wrote:

            edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit]

            Or possibly a legitmate website that doesn't know it's been hacked and under control by some script kiddies. :)

            Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] I agree with you that my argument is useless. [Red Stateler] Hey, I am part of a special bread, we are called smart people [Captain See Sharp] The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson] I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]

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              Oh, this is classic: Dear Valued Member, According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. http://www.gmail.com/confirm.php?account=... After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Gmail Abuse Department With the underlined linke actually directing to [http]libraryonline[dot]com[slash] confirmation_form[dot]exe (my [] for the actual chars.) :sigh: [edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit] Marc

              Thyme In The Country

              People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
              There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
              People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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              El Corazon
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              well... but someone died last year without an heir, I could be the one! :rolleyes: There is always something new, same trick, new company/site/message. I guess everything is officially old, even the spammers are resorting to old tricks.

              _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                Marc Clifton wrote:

                edit]and even wierder, libraryonline seems to be a legitimate website[/edit]

                Or possibly a legitmate website that doesn't know it's been hacked and under control by some script kiddies. :)

                Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] I agree with you that my argument is useless. [Red Stateler] Hey, I am part of a special bread, we are called smart people [Captain See Sharp] The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson] I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]

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                Mike Dimmick
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                Or more likely has a cross-site scripting/unchecked redirect bug.

                Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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