Gombi Guide Email
Examples of Spam Messages
Notice how ʻofficialʼ they all look, offer you a link for further information, a
chance to ʻunsubscribeʼ or ʻopt outʼ. A click on any link will cause you
strife!
Hi -geoff@biscc.com
Please be assured that you will not receive this e-mail again, it is a one off
mailing! Recently I received a chain letter (A piece of mail that was
forwarded to me) that contained your e-mail along with several other
peoples.
I thought that as your e-mail address was contained in one of these chain
letters (forwards) you might have others that you would be willing to send
to me. I know that this might sound a bit bizarre but I can assure you that
this is a serious request. I am involved in a research project that is based
over the next year, we are analysing Internet mail and trying to come up
with some fairly accurate results as far as trends and patterns are concerned,
we also need some accurate data regarding the type of mail that circulates
around the internet, we know that 69% of all mail is Spam but what we
don’t know is what % 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).
I would be very grateful if you would be kind enough to forward absolutely
anything and everything that remotely resembles chain mail, forwards of
any type (even the rude ones). This project is based over the next year and I
need at least 500,000 forwards for this project to be a success, so please
keep them coming the more the better and don’t worry I have some pretty
huge mail boxes to cope with this.
I would be most grateful if you would be kind enough to forward this e-mail
to all your friends & family as I need as many as I can get my hands on for
the project to be successful
Please send all chain mail (forwards) to the following address.
gemma36@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.
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