Hi, I would say that it's intention is to gather valid email addresses. If the subject/content are "atractive" enough, it might induce people into replying, not knowing that they just got their mail address added to a probably huge spam database. JG On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:30, Nico Golde wrote: > hi, > today the debian-mentors list received such a spam message: > Hello: > > I'd like to request for someone to sponsor the following unofficial > packages I have: snes9express (1.39-beta) - a GUI frontend for SNES9x > (as far as I know this is still an orphaned package); and visualboy > advance (a gameboy/gameboy color/gameboy advance emulator for Linux). > > The said packages can be obtained in this apt source location: > anything > that u want to send,send it by this below. > > P.O box 1103 agodi > Ibadan, > Oyo state, > Nigeria. > > At the time i read it first i haven't noticed that this was a spam. > It is a spam bot which greps trhough mailing list archives, greps some > pieces of the text in a mailing list message and inserts his spam text. > Here's the original posting: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200302/msg00287.html > > have you ever seen such a spam? > what i don't understand is, how somebody can make money with such a spam > mail? > regards nico > p.s. for all german people here on the list. > there is a very good funny story about baiting the nigeria connection in > the actual c't magzine.
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