Are you a Time Traveler?

[XeonTux]

I received this amusing peice of spam:

On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:28, adam30@gte.net wrote:
> Hello,
> If you are a Time Traveler I am going to need the following:
>
> 1. A modified mind warping Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a
> series wrist watch with memory adapter.
>
> 2. Reliable carbon based, or silicon based time transducing
> capacitor.
>
> I need a reliable source!! Please only reply if you are reliable.
> Send a (SEPARATE) email to me at: hornty1@email.com

I think I got one of these a while back too, or something similar... Anyhow I got curious this cold Sunday morning and looked up some of the key words on google.

I got a kick out of these responses:

Okay, I have a modified mind warping Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a series wrist watch. That is easy - a Timex, the glow in the dark stuff from 600 Mickey Mouse watches, and three eggbeaters. The memory adapter, though, is a bit tougher to make. I am having a hard time collecting all the flies needed for the visual interface. And my time transducing capacitor is nitrogen based - that's more fuel efficient. But you already knew that.

Anyway, if you can help, just email me, and I will tell you were to email your bank account number and the location of the needed parts. Once the time machine is finished, the emailer will be go back in time, and swap your bank account number with that of the secret Swiss account set up by the Nigerian Sub Defense Minister's mistress, and you will be given 10% for storing the money out of the eyes of Interpol.

from leankeft.com

The prices you have quoted seem fair. However, I must apologize for having mislead you in my previous email. I was checking the model numbers, and I only have the modified mind warping DWG 52 4350b. And I seem to have misplaced the memory adapter. I hope that this will be acceptable. As for the time stopping ring, I cannot help you. Having no fingers (see below) I sold my last ring months ago. If I come across another, though, I'll definately let you know.

As for doing business in person, that is, unfortunately, quite impossible. I am currently without a corporal form, having lost my last body in a bizarre fishing accident. This renders my access to teleportation rather pointless, as I currently reside in a purely electromagnetic state. Once I recieve payment for the above mentioned device, I will give you the coordinates, and you can teleport there and pick it up. As for a temporal displacement unit, I don't have one lying around (I'm a bit out of sorts at the moment) but I could probably track one down in a week or two if you are without other sources.

from uglyexpat.com

But does anyone know what the deal with this is?

Is it some crackhead? (well...obviously)

Is this some kind of test to ensure all the addresses in a spam mailing list are valid?
...hmm, I just told my mail client to bounce the message just in case. The return path is anonymous@trueband.net, so if this is in fact some spam test trueband.net would probably be befind it.

 

[guyver01]

Hey!! I NEED THOSE PARTS!! :| If you don't have them just say so!

sheesh

 

[wfbberzerker]

come.... join us in our starship...

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
come.... join us in our starship...

i wanna travel to the future... not another planet...


damn aliens.... dont know their future from their planet..

 

[wfbberzerker]

oh, if you only knew.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
oh, if you only knew.

i know everything... i'm from the future... duh

Aliens have short memories i see

 

[JC]

Yeah, Monel got that one....

JC

 

[XeonTux]

Originally posted by: JC
Yeah, Monel got that one....

Heh, I tried to search the forum here first. Too bad he didn't put "time" in the subject because I don't have the 1337 access to searches yet (in other words I'm a cheapskate)

 

[Iron Woode]

I was wondering when this crap would start to show up again.

Do a search on ATOT for one of these about a year ago.

It was some guy who needed to travell in time and needed help from some alien race. It was so strange it was funny.

 

[hdeck]

stop giving away our secrets!!!!! those e-mails were private, now that you have unveiled them you must be "dealt" with...muwahaha

 

[KevinF]

If you send an email to "hornty1@email.com," he'll actually reply with his life story and why he needs time travel. It's really creepy. The guy is definitely a nutcase.

The last time I received that email, it was the AOL address INeedTimeTravel, and I actually had a couple discussions on AIM with him. It's kind of sad, really.

 

[XeonTux]

kevin, please post!