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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:15pm PT
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Holding the pointer over a link will show the link, but it is also possible that it could execute some javascript instead.
What happens could be different in an e-mail client and could even depend on your browser if it is not just a straight link.
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:21pm PT
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So, what can happen besides coming here if you click on the link?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:22pm PT
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"Hello,I am pleased to contact you after going through your profile at www.supertopo.com on my search for good friendship,please contact me on this address,so that i can send you my photo and tell you about my self.I will be happy to know a little introduction of you,work and country.
Mercy"
Yeah, what's up the last line? Must not be a fluent English speaker.
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Captain...or Skully
Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:23pm PT
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I think the airfare to Boys I'dunno is pretty high, ain't it, Rokjox?
Pretty funny, mon....lol!
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rockermike
Mountain climber
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:35pm PT
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It seems to me the only important question is, Is she cute?
And I didn't even get an invite. damn
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apogee
climber
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:38pm PT
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Yep, got one too.
"never ever click on links"
If some kind of bot or spider has gotten past the ST security and harvested all these email addresses, makes one wonder about the security of the many links that are regularly posted here in the Forum. Caveat clicktor!
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:43pm PT
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I don't see how penis enlargement is going to do me any good, at least not on MY end, so I never open e-mail I don't recognize.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:46pm PT
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I got it as well. Can someone out there with tech saavy spam the hell out of that person's email or computer? That'd be sweet.
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:48pm PT
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I replied, and sent Locker's picture.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Dec 30, 2008 - 03:58pm PT
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Should send the famous Woody picture!
The link is just an anchor reference. Is what it purports to be in other words.
It appears that it got to the google mail server somehow with multiple addressees. It has a couple bogus IP addresses in it [10.223.122.134] and [10.223.103.207], but perhaps that is just an IP address internal to Google.
It also looks like it was sent via Google gmail web page, but I am not expert at deciphering this. But it appears to have started as http (web) then went smtp (sending mail).
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bluNgoldhornet6
Big Wall climber
Tampa, Fl
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Dec 30, 2008 - 04:04pm PT
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NO!!!!!! I THOUGHT I HAD A FRIEND!
Hmmm maybe next time.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 30, 2008 - 04:19pm PT
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how much memory in a typical Google email input queue?
Turnabout is fair play, one could write a script to send email to the account, continuously, until the mail started to bounce...
...if you have a STForum account, it is trivial to write a script to harvest all of the email of all of the members. The spammers hire (or do it themselves) real people to do this sort of thing.
One way to sense it is to see what members exist that never have posted... my guess is that those members would be suspect in this sort of scam.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Dec 30, 2008 - 04:26pm PT
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Ed, do you think that is a real e-mail account? :-)
I doubt "he" would even notice.
BTW. You ever seen those little squiggly letters on a sign up page?
Those were invented (I think by Google) because people can figure out what they are, but computer programs are not that clever, so it keeps the bots out.
Just a little internet trivia...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Dec 30, 2008 - 04:28pm PT
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But doesn't anybody want to be Mercy's friend!?
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Dec 30, 2008 - 04:54pm PT
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Mercy is actually a nice, lonely, very confused...young woman. We have been corresponding since I received her email. Seems she used to climb, then had a bit of a breakdown. Go "easy" on the girl.
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Dec 30, 2008 - 05:17pm PT
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I feel so left out.
I didn't get one of those emails. . .
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 30, 2008 - 05:18pm PT
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She might have something better planned for you Phil.
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