Finding Old Friends
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Many years ago, while living in Crestline, PRC, I had a friend living with me for a couple of years, along with her two daughters. It was an incredibly happy time, playing with the little girls, doing homework, teaching them to cook, raise snakes, and blow up missions constructed of sugar cubes. When I moved, so did they, and I lost track of them. Ever since Al Gore thoughtfully invented the Internet I've searched for them every couple of years, but with little luck. Once I found a newspaper article about one of them being in a minor auto accident, but otherwise nothing. Last week I tried again, and this time I hit pay dirt on the mom; she has a MySpace account! So I quickly joined, found her and the little girls (now 28 and 29) along with a new daughter I have not met. We exchanged a couple of emails and that was it; they have little interest in me now, being all grown and with families of their own to raise. That's okay, and as it should be. But now I'm getting thirty beautiful women a day sending me emails and pictures, begging to be my friend. Yeah, right... I know it's a scam, but I can't figure out what kind. All I can see that they have in common is that they all feature pics of drop dead beautiful young women, claim to be looking the the "right" man, loved my profile and picture, and want me to write to them at their yahoo.com addresses. Yeah, they all are on Yahoo. What are the odds? Does anyone know what they're after? If it's just email harvesting, there're easier ways to do it. It would probably take twenty lines of code to write a routine that would randomly send emails and log NACK responses. What's the game here?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Many years ago, while living in Crestline, PRC, I had a friend living with me for a couple of years, along with her two daughters. It was an incredibly happy time, playing with the little girls, doing homework, teaching them to cook, raise snakes, and blow up missions constructed of sugar cubes. When I moved, so did they, and I lost track of them. Ever since Al Gore thoughtfully invented the Internet I've searched for them every couple of years, but with little luck. Once I found a newspaper article about one of them being in a minor auto accident, but otherwise nothing. Last week I tried again, and this time I hit pay dirt on the mom; she has a MySpace account! So I quickly joined, found her and the little girls (now 28 and 29) along with a new daughter I have not met. We exchanged a couple of emails and that was it; they have little interest in me now, being all grown and with families of their own to raise. That's okay, and as it should be. But now I'm getting thirty beautiful women a day sending me emails and pictures, begging to be my friend. Yeah, right... I know it's a scam, but I can't figure out what kind. All I can see that they have in common is that they all feature pics of drop dead beautiful young women, claim to be looking the the "right" man, loved my profile and picture, and want me to write to them at their yahoo.com addresses. Yeah, they all are on Yahoo. What are the odds? Does anyone know what they're after? If it's just email harvesting, there're easier ways to do it. It would probably take twenty lines of code to write a routine that would randomly send emails and log NACK responses. What's the game here?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Dude, just face it: You are that sexy.
Roger Wright wrote:
Does anyone know what they're after?
A meaningful relationship, prefaced by long bouts of wild crazy porn star sex?
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Dude, just face it: You are that sexy.
Roger Wright wrote:
Does anyone know what they're after?
A meaningful relationship, prefaced by long bouts of wild crazy porn star sex?
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Aha! So that's it. Why would I use the Internet for that when it's so readily available here?:confused:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Many years ago, while living in Crestline, PRC, I had a friend living with me for a couple of years, along with her two daughters. It was an incredibly happy time, playing with the little girls, doing homework, teaching them to cook, raise snakes, and blow up missions constructed of sugar cubes. When I moved, so did they, and I lost track of them. Ever since Al Gore thoughtfully invented the Internet I've searched for them every couple of years, but with little luck. Once I found a newspaper article about one of them being in a minor auto accident, but otherwise nothing. Last week I tried again, and this time I hit pay dirt on the mom; she has a MySpace account! So I quickly joined, found her and the little girls (now 28 and 29) along with a new daughter I have not met. We exchanged a couple of emails and that was it; they have little interest in me now, being all grown and with families of their own to raise. That's okay, and as it should be. But now I'm getting thirty beautiful women a day sending me emails and pictures, begging to be my friend. Yeah, right... I know it's a scam, but I can't figure out what kind. All I can see that they have in common is that they all feature pics of drop dead beautiful young women, claim to be looking the the "right" man, loved my profile and picture, and want me to write to them at their yahoo.com addresses. Yeah, they all are on Yahoo. What are the odds? Does anyone know what they're after? If it's just email harvesting, there're easier ways to do it. It would probably take twenty lines of code to write a routine that would randomly send emails and log NACK responses. What's the game here?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
First John Simmons started using Fuchsia, now Roger Wright is on Myspace.... :sigh: What next? Will Anna come out and say she loves Lotus Notes? Will Maunder throw away his bikes for an SUV? Will Jim Crafton, Nish Bot, and Marc Clifton mass-convert to VB? :(
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
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Aha! So that's it. Why would I use the Internet for that when it's so readily available here?:confused:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I forgot you're in Nevada right? Where those kind of places are legal :)
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First John Simmons started using Fuchsia, now Roger Wright is on Myspace.... :sigh: What next? Will Anna come out and say she loves Lotus Notes? Will Maunder throw away his bikes for an SUV? Will Jim Crafton, Nish Bot, and Marc Clifton mass-convert to VB? :(
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
Fuchsia? I didn't catch that thread. I wonder what hot babes I'm missing? Anna will love whatever she loves, I'm sure, and someone has to love Notes. It's not a great job, but somebody has to do it. I heard that Chris is in the market for a Hummer; now that he's finally given up writing the site in VBScript, it's making money, and he can afford the gas. Jim and Nish and Marc all started with VB; I still remember their early posts, and they weren't pretty. We all learn at different rates... Will you be my friend on MySpace? Will you send me pics of hot babes that love my profile and want to jump in bed with me? I don't have any preference - Indian women are just fine with me. :-D Happy Easter, Vikram, if you happen to celebrate that particular holiday... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I forgot you're in Nevada right? Where those kind of places are legal :)
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No, I'm in Arizona, where such things are considered wrong (translation: we forgot to tax that).
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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First John Simmons started using Fuchsia, now Roger Wright is on Myspace.... :sigh: What next? Will Anna come out and say she loves Lotus Notes? Will Maunder throw away his bikes for an SUV? Will Jim Crafton, Nish Bot, and Marc Clifton mass-convert to VB? :(
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
If I do, you'll have to put me out of my misery! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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First John Simmons started using Fuchsia, now Roger Wright is on Myspace.... :sigh: What next? Will Anna come out and say she loves Lotus Notes? Will Maunder throw away his bikes for an SUV? Will Jim Crafton, Nish Bot, and Marc Clifton mass-convert to VB? :(
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
If Anna starts liking Lotus Notes, I'll divorce her!
Having a bad bug day? Find answers this way... --- Elle A Du Shell --
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If I do, you'll have to put me out of my misery! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
It could be worse, it could be Coral Suite!
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
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If Anna starts liking Lotus Notes, I'll divorce her!
Having a bad bug day? Find answers this way... --- Elle A Du Shell --
No you won't, you will both go to counselling, force her to take the medication and stand by her on the long road to recovery. Go to the groups, "My Name is Anna and I'm a Lotusaholic".
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
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Dude, just face it: You are that sexy.
Roger Wright wrote:
Does anyone know what they're after?
A meaningful relationship, prefaced by long bouts of wild crazy porn star sex?
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh
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If Anna starts liking Lotus Notes, I'll divorce her!
Having a bad bug day? Find answers this way... --- Elle A Du Shell --
:laugh: :laugh: That should keep her safe from that evil beast! :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Many years ago, while living in Crestline, PRC, I had a friend living with me for a couple of years, along with her two daughters. It was an incredibly happy time, playing with the little girls, doing homework, teaching them to cook, raise snakes, and blow up missions constructed of sugar cubes. When I moved, so did they, and I lost track of them. Ever since Al Gore thoughtfully invented the Internet I've searched for them every couple of years, but with little luck. Once I found a newspaper article about one of them being in a minor auto accident, but otherwise nothing. Last week I tried again, and this time I hit pay dirt on the mom; she has a MySpace account! So I quickly joined, found her and the little girls (now 28 and 29) along with a new daughter I have not met. We exchanged a couple of emails and that was it; they have little interest in me now, being all grown and with families of their own to raise. That's okay, and as it should be. But now I'm getting thirty beautiful women a day sending me emails and pictures, begging to be my friend. Yeah, right... I know it's a scam, but I can't figure out what kind. All I can see that they have in common is that they all feature pics of drop dead beautiful young women, claim to be looking the the "right" man, loved my profile and picture, and want me to write to them at their yahoo.com addresses. Yeah, they all are on Yahoo. What are the odds? Does anyone know what they're after? If it's just email harvesting, there're easier ways to do it. It would probably take twenty lines of code to write a routine that would randomly send emails and log NACK responses. What's the game here?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
They're not individual girls, they're sample girls from porn sites. They want to get you to subscribe to their site/service/feed/whatever. It boils down to a very poorly targeted banner ad with boobs. The other thing you'll notice, if you forget to delete their friend requests for a week or so, the accounts disappear. Not sure why that is actually. They're getting banned or recycled by someone I guess.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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They're not individual girls, they're sample girls from porn sites. They want to get you to subscribe to their site/service/feed/whatever. It boils down to a very poorly targeted banner ad with boobs. The other thing you'll notice, if you forget to delete their friend requests for a week or so, the accounts disappear. Not sure why that is actually. They're getting banned or recycled by someone I guess.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Oh great. And I suppose the little kids on the site are getting the same ads?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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No you won't, you will both go to counselling, force her to take the medication and stand by her on the long road to recovery. Go to the groups, "My Name is Anna and I'm a Lotusaholic".
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
Dalek Dave wrote:
No you won't, you will both go to counselling, force her to take the medication and stand by her on the long road to recovery.
As long as the medication isn't Fosters I'm sure I'll cope. :-O
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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First John Simmons started using Fuchsia, now Roger Wright is on Myspace.... :sigh: What next? Will Anna come out and say she loves Lotus Notes? Will Maunder throw away his bikes for an SUV? Will Jim Crafton, Nish Bot, and Marc Clifton mass-convert to VB? :(
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
Shush, before I have to smack you down! :)
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Oh great. And I suppose the little kids on the site are getting the same ads?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Of course! Actually I think they key in off your birth date. MySpace seems to have a few basic kiddy protections in place, I couldn't say what they are though.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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Of course! Actually I think they key in off your birth date. MySpace seems to have a few basic kiddy protections in place, I couldn't say what they are though.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Skymir wrote:
MySpace seems to have a few basic kiddy protections in place, I couldn't say what they are though.
No doubt they assume the kidiots won't lie about their age to get around any annoying no kids barriers. :rolleyes:
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