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Some Spammer Has a Crush on You
A friend of mine and I were bit by SomeoneLikesYou in the last week. The scam is elegant in its simplicity. The site teases you with an email claiming to know someone who likes you, then makes you guess who it might be by submitting their email address(es). Each of those addresses receives a teaser email just like yours. Rinse, repeat. I ignored the message -- obviously a fake; I couldn't possibly be anyone's crush :-) -- but my friend took the bait and fed it some demographic data and email addresses. Once she realized what was going on, she wrote to everyone apologizing for any spam they may have received. She also sent a nastygram to the site's operators.
It should be pointed out that there is no proof that SomeoneLikesYou is doing anything nefarious with the data they're collecting. However, their credibility is not strengthened by their faked WHOIS records and their meaningless doubletalk on privacy issues (the declaration, "We send precisely zero e-mail advertisements," says nothing about the behavior of their partners/affiliates.)"
I sent in my money and all she sent me was spam. And here I thought she was going to send me a nude pic and hours of hardcore action.
Karma whorin' since 1999
I just checked my logs and it appears that my antispam software just deleted a message about someone who likes me without me getting a chance to read it. Maybe its time to go back to the old method of just hitting delete now that the carpal tunnel syndrome is almost gone on the finger I use on the delete key.
This is obviously a plot... who the hell in their right mind would have a crush on me?!?!
SOME GIRL: I know somebody who's got a crush on you
:-D
ME: Oh yeah? Who?
SOME GIRL: Will you pay me if I let you have a guess?
ME: I don't care, I'm rich, there you go. Is it SHE?
SOME GIRL: No. Nice try, though.
[later...]
SOME GIRL: Hey OTHER GIRL, I know somebody who likes you
SHE: Oh yeah? Who?
SOME GIRL: Will you pay me if I let you have a guess?
SHE: There you go. Is it stere0?
(note: I didn't have facial hair in primary school)
SOME GIRL: No.
I overheard them, and this is how SOME GIRL got rich by doing this to the whole school and how I got my first kiss a couple of weeks later.
Trollem mirabilem hanc subnotationis exigiutas non caperet
I spend $15,000 on this engagement ring for nothing?!
There really is someone who likes you. In fact, here's the original personal ad involved:
"Mass email marketer ISO young, wealthy singles with low self-esteem and money to burn. Low IQ is a plus, gullibility even better. Turn-ons: making telephone calls at dinnertime, taking long walks on the beach with your money."
What's your damage, Heather?
Noone really has a crush on the support alias for my company? I don't know how I'm going to break the news to it.
because Miss Cleo told me not to answer these things. She's saved me a lot of money, let me tell you!
Ad luna, Alicia! Ad luna!
A couple of weeks ago I received a SMS message that started with "Iemand vindt je leuk, en heeft ons jouw nummer achtergelaten..." ("Someone likes you and has left your number with us", original Dutch maintained for Google searches).
Oh, speaking of googling, there was a hilarious spelling mistake at the end "Wil je weten wie je geheime *aanbieder* is?" ("Do you want to know who your secret admirer is", except they put an 'e' in "aanbidder" where a 'd' should be, "aanbieder" means "provider")
I couldn't find a reference on the internet to this operation, so I figured it might be legit. I called to the number they gave: 09062001372 (couple dozen eurocents a minute). They pulled the same routine as described above. I had to enter my own phone number (as if they didn't have it) then take a guess as to who left my number in the first place (I gave a bogus number). Then I was promised they'd SMS the number of my secret provider, but of course they never did.
I suppose this scam pays off quite well. I'm a pretty suspicious person as a rule, but in this case, especially after I couldn't find any information about it on the internet, I just had to check it out. They got about 3 minutes worth of high phone rates out of me.
Well its obvious then: AOL loves you!
AOL and Montag
Sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
That's because your email address is bill@whitehouse.gov.
You already know that lewinski@fatbrain.com already likes you. You have no need for a service like this.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2001/deb
were you expecting to see a sig here? perhaps you'd rather see the inside of an ambulance!
I figured I was lucky, I got everything I wanted to know without it costing me anything but the time. I doubt many others were so lucky.
Are you sure? Do you know if this loser Sara is right for you?