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Wednesday, July 23 2003

It's good to have a job. I had only been without for about seven weeks, but it was about 5 weeks too long. Not only that, but my new job is actually really, really good. I work at Globeranger on the Platform team. We build a platform for mobile and RFID (radio frequency ID - sorta like radio emitter barcodes) application development. That is, we build the application frameworks that other developers (who buy our product) will use to build their applications better. A guy I work with explained our position as something like this:

"Eventually people building RFID-enabled applications are going to realize how much of a pain in the ass it is to really use embedded devices and work with RFID vendor APIs. That's where we are, with a toolset that makes it trivial to build these applications."

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A while back I mentioned Andrew Carlssin, a "time traveller" from the future cheating at the stock market. It was a Weekly World News story and obviously very fake. Today, I get this email:

"Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Since nobody here seems to be able to get me what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circut to get where I need myself. I am going to need an easy to follow picture diagram for a simple time travel circut, which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any schematics you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have the rechargeable AMD dimensional warp generator wrist watch unit available, and are 100% certain you have a (secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply. Send a separate email to me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com.

Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to you.

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Now, it was sent to an email that is not associated with this website, so it's not like someone would have just seen my post and play a little prank with a stupid email. Plus, the actual end of the email (all that gibberish) is very spambot-like. So the question is, is why someone would waste their precious spamming on an email spam as stupid as this? Maybe they just hoped that someone would send an email to info@federalfundingprogram.com? I'm honestly confused as to why anyone would bother to send out this email.
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wibblefish wrote on January 23, 2008

Re your gibberish spam, I just received one:

Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.

I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.

In terms of payment:
I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.

INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED EXACTLY:
Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Tuesday August 5th at (exactly 5:00pm) Eastern Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me. I will not be there prior to 4:45pm EST, so do not transport before then.

Item is to be delivered at (out of service tennis court) located at: Latitude N 42.47935 & Longitude W 071.17355 and the Elevation is 119.
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!
I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SEND IT SO THAT THEY CANNOT REDIRECT IT??? If in doubt do not transport actual unit until your method of transfer can be confirmed as a success. You just might need to send a intergalactic courier to deliver item safely to me. If so be VERY careful at how they approach me IN MY WHITE CAR.


After unit has been delivered please email me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com
with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.

Thank You



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After Googling for the email addy I ended up here. Enjoy.

Adam wrote on January 23, 2008

I've gotten almost that exact same email also, but only slightly varied. I'm still really curious what can be gotten out of this stupid of an email.

wibblefish wrote on January 23, 2008

Adam

I got to the bottom of it - Meet Mad Bob, the time-travelling spammer! (link is to my personal site, neverhappy.com)

Regards

Ross (wibblefish)

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