Dec. 2nd, 2004

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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL WARNING!

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A huge 300 ft. high ocean wave is
moving towards your continent.
Your and many other cities are in a real danger.
Approximate
wave moving speed is 700 km/h.

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Please read more about this catastrophe here: [URL]

We are strongly urging you to evacuate yourself and your family as soon as
possible,
even though you may live far away from your city.
The tsunami will reach the
continent in approximately FOUR hours.

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YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

This case to a genericaddress at the poohsoc domain. Seriously, does anyone have any idea why?

It's obviously spam, not a misguided forward or something, since it has random letters in, and was sent to an unused address.

The website, as far as I can tell, is a genuine one, warning somewhat innefectually Australians how to avoid tsunamis.

Someone wrote this. They had some reason. For the love of God, why. I seriously can't think of any reason. Well, ok, maybe:

1. The website records hits, it's an attempt to measure if more unusual spam gets people to click on it.
2. There's a secret code hidden in the random letters, composed by someone who wants to conceal the *existence* of a message.
3. They hope half of western australia will take to the hills and they can steal stuff and drive their car about without traffic jams. OK, so some people are stupid, but THAT stupid?
4. Someone's training an AI to generate reasonable-looking spam email, but they're not veyr good at it.

Any ideas? At all?

UPDATE: AJ points says the site *isn't* safe; it installs a trojan on some verions of internet explorer. Please tell me you haven't clicked on it.
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The CTS silly sketches were very funny; congratulations to Anna and Pippa, and all the actors, but most especially Tim for Lord of the Goons: that gave me several "I'm actually choking now" moments which I haven't had for a while. *Appluase*

Seriously, I'm not *just* an innuendo machine, but when you've spent five minutes exploring the innuendo possibilities of Tim's glowing sword, and have just given up, when Anna, in all innocence, comes up and says "I'm going to steal your sword. And swallow it," how can you *not* crack up??

Thea gave out christmas cards. Which was sweet. But now I have to, except I don't like to cop out and say "Who wants a card from me", so I probably won't get round to it. Maybe for close friends and people who sent me one? Sorry, everyone else :)

And term's over, so as rochvelleth pointed out I may not see people I don't see outside of term until next term. Though that's increasinly few people now, happy christmas to you!
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