2009-12-10 12:00

Weird spam message has this columnist stumped

 

Everyone who has an e-mail account knows about spam mails. They're sent from people who want to put viruses on your computer, or do something else bad. Recently, I got a spam message that was so strange I am still wondering what it's all about.

It was all in Russian. I copied it into Google Translate, and it interpreted it for me. It talked about a farmer with an axe. Then it said that it has "all the data from other people's phones." Next it gave me a link to a Canadian pharmacy Web site. After that it gave a question that "the werewolf" asked, and stated some random sentence about Parisian newspapers and "tyrants curbs."

Even weirder than the body of the e-mail was the sender and receiver. Apparently it was sent from somebody who's from a city in Barrie, Canada (I know this because it said @barrie.ca) and was addressed to a Russian software company. I know that spammers can somehow steal other peoples' addresses to put as the sender, but I'm not sure about the receiver.

All in all, I think this is just a message trying to scare people who translated it and did research like me. My overly paranoid brother thinks it's some people trying to plan a nuclear war, but I know that's not true.

Remember: if you get a spam message, don't open any attachments, click on any links (I didn't actually click on the Canadian pharmacy link on my message, I did it a different way), and definitely do not reply to it. I guess spammers just don't get that what they are doing is wrong.

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