"I saw your web site" e-mail

[SUOrangeman]

This is interesting. I just received the following e-mail (quoted verbatim below, I hyperlinked the URL quoted in the msg). What I find interesting is that the sender had to go to my signature to get my e-mail, as it is a Hotmail address (unusable on these forums), and that the URL referenced is clearly not my site. I want to believe that there is not a single bot in existence this sophisticated to extract my e-mail address from a page of Cold Fusion HTML (hey, I am naive when I have a cold 😉). Anyone else get this message or is this simply another random occurrence of spam?

-SUO

"From dannipage@fiberia.com Fri Feb 23 01:22:56 2001
Received: from [206.228.110.213] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBC5F769300AC4004315ACEE46ED50B150; Fri Feb 23 01:21:26 2001
From: &quot;Danni Page&quot; <dannipage@fiberia.com>
To: <suorangeman@hotmail.com>
Subject: I saw your web site
Sender: &quot;Danni Page&quot; <dannipage@fiberia.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:39:53 -0800
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi
We are responding to your request for FREE analysis of your site:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.c
We feel there is very substantial potential to promote your site on the Internet. That is what we do - we bring traffic to our client's websites. We have proprietary software and assortment of other Internet tools designed to make your site popular and bring traffic that is interested in your product area. This can put dollars in your pocket.

Many of our clients initially thought it would be better for us to be paid in a percentage of profits. Thank goodness for them they choose a flat fee instead. They have enjoyed an enormous increase in traffic.

Please REPLY to this email and include your:

Full Name:

Telephone #:

WEB site :

I think you will be very surprised by the detail and results of our analysis.
Danni Page
Top Seed Promotions

If we received your request by mistake, click reply and type remove in the subject line.&quot;

 

[shawnmos]

Thats one sophisticated bot!!!

 

[bigbigsavings]

I get these ALL the time! Apparently I keep requesting free analyses of bigbigsavings, but I just never follow through with them. Shame on me, lol.

Alex

 

[Phil21]

you answered your own question.. your e-mail is in your sig, making it exponentially easier for the bot to get it in the first place. If anything, this is a dumber both than one that would pull it out of your profile. 😛

-Phil

 

[Mykex]

<< Textis this simply another random occurrence of spam? >>



There are no random occurrences of spam. 🙁