Ok i got this dodgy mail ... plz tell me what u make of it

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Hi - [My mail addy here]

Sent from Gemma Brown.

I recently received a chain letter (A piece of mail that had been forwarded to me) that had your e-mail address in it along with several other peoples.

I thought that as your mail address was on one of these chain letters (forwards) you may have others that you would be willing to send to me. I know that this might sound like a daft request but I can assure you that this is a serious request. I am involved in a university project that is based over a year and we are analysing Internet mail, we are trying to ascertain trends and patterns to come up with some fairly accurate statistics regarding the type of mail that circulates around the internet, we know that 70% of all mail is spam but what we don’t know is what percentage of that spam accounts for chain mail (forwards of any type, something that has been forwarded to you, a piece of mail that has formed part of a chain).

Please send absolutely anything and everything that remotely resembles chain mail, forwards of any type (even the rude ones). My project is based over a year and I need one million forwards for this project to be a success, so please keep them coming and don’t worry I have some pretty huge mail boxes.

I would be grateful if you would be kind enough to forward this piece of mail to all your friends as I need as much help as I can get.

Please send all chain mail (forwards) to the following address.  gemma9@research-project.org

Everyone that helps will receive a copy of our results and findings in January of next year so please help if you can.

Thanks

Gemma

Reference No - (DINVNLTQL7Q)

You will only receive this mail the once, it will not be sent to you again and your e-mail address will not be passed on, however to conform to the law we must give you the opportunity to have your e-mail removed from our list. Please reply with the word delete to have your address removed.

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i got this...


classed it as spam.

lol a new breed of chain e-mails or is real

thing is, i got 2 at the same time that were similer so i duno..

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Originally posted by Stigmata
i got this...
classed it as spam.

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Originally posted by Absorbation
chain e-mails or is real

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Originally posted by Absorbation
lol a new breed of spam chain e-mails or is real

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Originally posted by Absorbation
or is real

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http://www.research-project.org/ says "under construction", so I wouldn't trust it for a second

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
http://www.research-project.org/ says "under construction", so I wouldn't trust it for a second

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and for those who might say: "blah, can't hurt anyone if I just send it or play along"...

Yes it does hurt everybody. Sending such crap or "playing along" only puts more strain on various mailservers, making other legit mails going slower and slower...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

and for those who might say: "blah, can't hurt anyone if I just send it or play along"...

Yes it does hurt everybody. Sending such crap or "playing along" only puts more strain on various mailservers, making other legit mails going slower and slower...

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Originally posted by John Anderton
I only take part in National forward ie stuff that is based on my country  so no one else would have got it ....

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Hey who wants to spam the shit out of there inbox with there own message and see if we can fill it?



EDIT:

I did a little search on gemma9 this is what I've found out:

Background

   Nationality Spain

   Residence Tralee, Ireland
» see where I've been

Education

   Home University Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
   Area of Study Business Studies
   Graduation Date September 2003
   Host University Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
   Start Date January 2004
   End Date June 2004

Language Skills

  Spanish (native)
English (intermediate)
» read my forum posts 

Work Experience

   Company/Organisation Styl Models
   Job Industry Tourism / Hotel management
   Job Function Sales
   Country Spain
   Period November 2003 - January 2004

This is from: http://profiles.iagora.com/gemma9/bio.html

Dodgy Google images of gemma9:
http://images.google.ca/images?q=gemma9&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
OR
http://www.orange-blossom-special.de/photos/obs1_6/pages/gemma9.html

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Originally posted by John Anderton
university project

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Originally posted by John Anderton
gemma9@research-project.org

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JA, you did do a chain letter . You sent it to -dt-, then he forwarded it onto me. and i... blah blah blah. don't you think that maybe someone along the line got this chain letter (the one where you tell all these things about yourself) with all CC and BCC email addresses. maybe yours was one . the internet isn't 100% fake

Actually, i got one ages ago in my hotmail account from a Yahoo account, from a Gemma Brown also....

didn't have the same subject and my gmail inbox is free from it

I can't see how no one mentioned this.

It's not real at all. At all.

It's just a way to build an up to date spam list easily and by "hiring" volunteers that think they are helping a research project about what... oh, right, an University project for stats about what percentage of e-mails are chains! So how the hell are they going to get their percentages if you are only supposed to forward them chain letters? I mean, they'll get a 100% ratio.

Simple: you forward them a chain letter with your friend's addresses, your friends' friends' addresses, your friends' friends' friends' addresses and so on typed just nicely in plain text right there in the "to:" and "cc:" fields of the quoted messages. They parse the emails they receive, grab all the addresses, build an all new spam list from all your friends, friends' friends, friends' friends' friends, etc. and, hopefully, in a month send this very same request to all those addresses as well. Another chain reaction starts, with the result being them getting a fairly good quality database of people who are screaming to receive advertisements. After, em, of course, graduating from that fabulous university that studies e-mail chains *cough*

even if they were real i still wouldnt wate my time supporting them and whenevr i get mail i just delete it without reading it enless its like an acivation code or my password or something similar or if it has a unique title from someone i know and it COULD be soemthing important i look at it and osmetimes keep it but mostly they send me jokes and pictures and chainletters and crap like that

how can people fall for this kind of things?

um nobody "falls" for it...they either just want to keep it going for something to do, dont really care and forward it and lots of little kids also dont relly know its not real and keep it going on...

i dont mean who sends them, i mean the people whos 'workin' for this 'university'

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Originally posted by ~!dylan!~
um nobody "falls" for it...they either just want to keep it going for something to do, dont really care and forward it and lots of little kids also dont relly know its not real and keep it going on...

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Originally posted by Guido

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Originally posted by ~!dylan!~
um nobody "falls" for it...they either just want to keep it going for something to do, dont really care and forward it and lots of little kids also dont relly know its not real and keep it going on...

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He means the people who "fall" for this e-mail (the one in the 1st post) and actually forward forwards to this e-mail address @research-project.org

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you can always send em a message back sayin "BULLSHIT YOU SPAM'

or sometin like that , but i wudnt trust this .. i've gotten many 'research' letters like these =/

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Originally posted by raceprouk
If it was a university project, they'd be using a university address. Now, I don't know about you, but I haven't heard of 'Research Project University', nor a uni with .org (they're usually .edu (US) or .ac.uk or similar).

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Originally posted by SikStyles
you can always send em a message back sayin "BULLSHIT YOU SPAM'

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If you email back you're more likely to get more spam because they know they found an email then, then sell your email address to other spammy people, thus you get more. I would just delete it lol

I have a mail bomber and im gonna spam the crap out of them.

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Originally posted by Purity
I have a mail bomber and im gonna spam the crap out of them.

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Not to mention mail bombing is something 9 year olds who were just introduced to the internet do.

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Originally posted by Ddunk
1) you'd be giving your email to them, which is what the entire thread was talking about.

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Originally posted by Ddunk
2) One computer with a few text emails aren't gonnna dent their servers, and if you were planning to send HTML ones, it'd take too long

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Originally posted by Ash_
JA, you did do a chain letter . You sent it to -dt-, then he forwarded it onto me. and i... blah blah blah. don't you think that maybe someone along the line got this chain letter (the one where you tell all these things about yourself) with all CC and BCC email addresses. maybe yours was one . the internet isn't 100% fake

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Originally posted by Guido
Many text mails are more likely to hang up a server a bit more than less, bigger e-mails. That's my uneducated guess, at least. If anything, at least, their mail crawler will take longer to finish the process. Ahh, revenge!

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you could quickly make a script that would create loads of fake e-mail addresses, and then put it all into an e-mail and send it to them.

Just use some type of anonymal & a proxy, run the mail-bomb, untraceable.

Can I repêat what I said earlier?

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for those who might say: "blah, can't hurt anyone if I just send it or play along"...

Yes it does hurt everybody. Sending such crap or "playing along" only puts more strain on various mailservers, making other legit mails going slower and slower...

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The mere thought of 'revenge' e-mails takes you down to the spammers' level. Take heed of CookieRevised's advice.

Yeh, I remember Cookie saying something like (you may find this post somewhere on these forums, like Cookie's reply to etc. , anyway),

"You used to be able to send an email from one side of the world to the other and it would arrive in seconds"

but now, emails take ages to get through , like activation codes etc. then i go to bed and then finally receive it like the next day and it's ran out and have to request another...

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Originally posted by jren207
but now, emails take ages to get through , like activation codes etc. then i go to bed and then finally receive it like the next day and it's ran out and have to request another...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Can I repêat what I said earlier?
Yes it does hurt everybody. Sending such crap or "playing along" only puts more strain on various mailservers, making other legit mails going slower and slower...

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just ignore the spam and delete it, do not react upon it, nor send "revenge" mails...

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Originally posted by Guido
Hmm... I guess it's because of your ISP or something... I get activation e-mails and so after just 1 or 2 minutes

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It is a well known fact that emails are send/received much slower than they used to. The reason for this, as everybody says, is "increased email traffic". The biggest increase of email traffic isn't because more and more people use email, but because of the spam. More then 50% of send emails is spam related these days (it can be spam or replies to spam or the likes), and some studies even say it is 75%...

In other words, despite the fact that you lower yourself to the level of spammers, you activly help to increase the email traffic and thus slowing down the mail servers if you reply to such bullocks, weither it's for revenge, unsubsribing or what not.

And of course you can say, what's 1 mail between billions. Well not much, but the point is that everybody thinks that way and thus that 1 email becomes millions and millions of unneeded strain on mail servers, slowing the legit mails down...

The refernce number gives it away as fake. Tey tried to hard to make it seem real.