October – 2007 – Yet Another Website

Friday Random Ten: 2007-10-19

	Name	Artist	Album	Genre
1.	Innocence Faded	Dream Theater	Awake	Metal
2.	Mushu Creole Blues	Billy Cobham	The Traveler	Jazz
3.	Heavy Duty	Spinal Tap	This is Spinal Tap	Soundtrack
4.	Sunday	The Cranberries	Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?	Alternative & Punk
5.	Hot Sauce	Thomas Dolby	Aliens Ate My Buick	Alternative & Punk
6.	Five Per Cent For Nothing	Yes	Fragile	Rock
7.	No Reply [Demo]	The Beatles	Anthology 1 [Disc 2]	Rock
8.	Crazy Baby	Joan Osborne	Relish	Rock
9.	Dear Father	Yes	Time And A Word	Rock
10.	Eastern Bloc (Sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins, 1981)	Thomas Dolby	Astronauts & Heretics	Alternative & Punk

(via Peripetia) Hardee’s unleashes killer breakfast burrito Hardee’s unleashes killer breakfast burrito By Jim Salter ASSOCIATED PRESS 10/15/2007 The people who brought you the Monster Thickburger and the 1,100-calorie salad are at it again — this time for breakfast. A 1,100-calorie salad! WTF? Hardee’s on Monday rolled out its new Country Breakfast Burrito — two … Continue reading “Food Porn”

Ann Coulter gets Hacked

(via email)

An Open Letter to Readers (link may not work)

October 15, 2007

Dear Readers,

I’ve been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. Quite frankly, I’m sick of it. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air. At first, it was quite interesting to see how people would react when I would use twisted logic and poorly masked bigotry.

But eleven years is a long time to be living a fake life, and I can no longer tolerate this falsity. Even someone as fake as I tires out eventually.

Here’s the truth, I don’t care what people believe. Jews don’t need to be “made perfect” as I so arrogantly proclaimed to Editor & Publisher not a half week ago. I don’t even care if people are Muslim. Granted, I don’t know much about the religion or the people, but they are people. This is something that we cannot forget, they are in an abhorrent situation. These people are in need of education. Perhaps if we did not participate in causing them misery, they would not hate us so.

In fact, does it really matter whether we are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, or even Pagan? We are one nation. One. We should not let petty differences separate us, we are all American, and should act in that manner.

And with that, my precious viewers, I bid you adieu. My career as a media figurehead is over.

Signed,

Ann Coulter

P.S. – Oh, and Bill O’Reilly is also just acting.

After disappearing for a while, the above message reappeared with the following at the end:

Haha, did it again. Oh, those silly web admins…they just embarrass themselves.

(Admins, check for an e-mail address in the CMS. Find it. I know you will.)

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URGENT CALL FOR CONFIRMATION!!!

And yet another lottery scam gets by the spam filter…

From: <daniele_martino@virgilio.it>

That’s different, an Italian email address and this email actually came from a computer in Italy.

Reply-To: daniele_martino@virgilio.it
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:33:37 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: URGENT CALL FOR CONFIRMATION!!!

URGENT CALL FOR CONFIRMATION!!!

URGENT! What do I need to do?

This is to inform you that your email
ID has won 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) in the first category of
our computer ballot email
lottery with the said winning numbers giving
below;

E-Ticket number07-32-44-45-50 (01-07)
Prize Number (match 3):
106000009

Bank: Laagste Heypotheekofferte Bank. N.L. Attention: Dirk Garvin. Karspeldreef 6A, 110 1 CJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Netherlands? Then why does this email come from Italy?

E-mail:
laagstbankernsnl@aim.com

One would think “Laagste Heypotheekofferte Bank. N.L.” would have its own internet domain….

Telephone: +31 616 859 048
Fax
: (+3184) 735-9610.

You are also advice to furnish them with the
following information:

advice to furnish — WTF?

Names:
Telephone / Fax
E-Ticket number
Prize
Number

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Dumald van Hook (Lottery Director)
De
Nederlandse Dayzers Promotion
Official Website: www.dayzers.nl

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Friday Random Ten: 2007-10-12

	Name	Artist	Album	Genre
1.	Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life	Monty Python’s Spamalot	Original Cast Recording	Soundtrack
2.	Dionysus	Jocelyn Pook	Gangs Of New York	Soundtrack
3.	The Painter’s Link	Kate Bush	Aerial: A Sky of Honey	Alternative & Punk
4.	Many Meetings	Howard Shore	The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring	Soundtrack
5.	Light My Fire	The Doors	The Doors	Rock
6.	Mother Of Pearl	Pretty & Twisted	Pretty & Twisted	Alternative & Punk
7.	At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony	Howard Shore	The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring	Soundtrack
8.	Punky’s Whips	Frank Zappa	Baby Snakes	Alternative & Punk
9.	It Can Happen	Yes	90125	Rock
10.	Outside Of This (Inside Of That)	Jon & Vangelis	The Friends Of Mr. Cairo	Rock

THE BMW LOTTERY

Yet another lottery scam gets by the spam filter…

From: “Mr.Jeffery Anderson” <bmw_elotterybonanza@yahoo.co.uk>

A yahoo email address? <sarcasm>This must be legit.</sarcasm>

Reply-To: bmwlotterydept_office@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:04:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON THE BMW LOTTERY 2007

BMW GROUP PROMOTION
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT, BMW Automobiles
22 Garden Close, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 2YP, LondonUnited Kingdom 11.10.2007
Attention:

WHAT?

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand Great British Pounds) from the BMW e-LOTTERY BONANZA International programs held 1st of October 2007, in London United Kingdom.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system(ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world which you were selected.

It’s funny how often my email is “selected” by these “computerized email selection system(ess)”.

The BMW e-Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

Yeah, right.

This promotional lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

Sounds painful…

To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduciary claims department for more information as regards procedures to claim your prize.
================================================================

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
7 DOCK WAY, SEFTON BUSINESS PARK
LONDON, T40 4RT
UNITED KINGDOM.

Sir. Tony Hopkins
BY EMAIL
Email: bmwlotterydept_office@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone: 44-7045700995
================================================================

Contact him by providing him with your secret pin code X7PYWM2007 and your Reference Number BMW:2551256003/23.You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information’s as soon as possible:

You are also advised to drop dead.

1.Name in
full.—————————————————————————
2.Address.—————————————————————————–
3.Nationality.————————————————–
4.Age.——————————-
5.Occupation.————————————————–
*Monthly salary—————————————————-

WTF do you need to know my monthly salary?

6.Telephone Number.—————————————————
7.Present Country.———————————————–
8.Short comment on our products. [optional]. –
———————————————————————————–
9.Fax [optional].————————————————
10.Email address. ——————————————–

Don’t you already have my email address?

==================================================================

Please you are to provide him with the above listed details as soon as possible so he can begin with the processing of your prize winnings. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
MR.JEFFERY ANDERSON
THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS
BMW PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED KINGDOM? Then why did this email originate from a computer in Slovakia?

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LUKI COMPANY UK

Here’s another example of a lottery scam…

From: LUKI COMPANY UK <lukiteam1@yahoo.co.uk >

A yahoo email address? <sarcasm>This must be legit.</sarcasm>

Reply-To: aarongraham_theluki@excite.com
Date:Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:01:19 -0400
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF YOUR NOTIFICATION

ATTN: WINNER,

Wow! I’m a winner. I wonder what I won…

We happily announce to you the draw of the LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL, your email address attached to Reference Number: 47,DH,82/LUKI with Ticket No: 67/836

There seem to be a lot of “winners” out there with Reference Number: 47,DH,82/LUKI and Ticket No: 67/836.

which subsequently won you one of the Jackpot cash prizes.

Which jackpot? Please tell me!

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £3,500,000.00(Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds)

Of course it’s the absurdly large jackpot…

in cash credited to FILE CATEGORY – LUKI/UK01/2007. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 50,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

Odd that this message makes no mention of which union, association, or corporate body my email address was extracted from.

To commence processing of your winnings, you MUST FORWARD a copy of this email to our claims director via contact information below;

MR. AARON GRAHAM,
CLAIMS DIRECTOR,
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT,
Tel:+44 703 190 6783
Fax:+44 871 263 6944
Email: aarongraham_theluki@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: aarongraham_theluki@excite.com

One would think “LUKI COMPANY UK” would have its own email domain.

Congratulations once again from me, and entire members of staff of the LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.

Hope in one hand, and crap in the other, and see which piles up first!

Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Jessica Pamer,
PROMOTION DEPARTMENT,
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
************************************************************

DISCLAIMER & CONFIDENTIALITY:
The information contained in this communication including any attachments is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it.

It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, unauthorized use, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

I wouldn’t be lecturing anyone on what is unlawful if I were you.

If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system.

Or post it on your website 🙂

LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL is neither liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt.

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A Vile Troll Gets Caught Spamming

(from the whack a troll dept.)

Here’s an entry (spelling and formatting preserved) from my Guestbook. The author is rec.arts.marching.drumcorps‘ resident troll, Michael E. Schmidt. He often posts under an assumed name to promote himself (his writing style is easy to recognize).

Here are some classic Howdy (what he sometimes calls himself) usenet posts. Here are some more recent posts.

From my logs, it looks like the Rev. Dr. Howdy Doody was looking for drum corps guestbooks to sign.

While reading this “gem”, keep in mind that he claims to have seven degrees from “accredited” institutions. Without further ado, here’s the Rev. Dr. Howdy Doody’s entry:

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Friday Random Ten: 2007-10-05

	Name	Artist	Album	Genre
1.	You Know, You Know	Mahavishnu Orchestra	Inner Mounting Flame	Jazz
2.	Epistrophy	Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane	At Carnegie Hall	Jazz
3.	Leather	Tori Amos	Little Earthquakes	Alternative & Punk
4.	Only When I Sleep?	The Corrs	Talk On Corners (Special Edition)	Pop
5.	Solo II – Cante Piatti I	Terry Bozzio	Solo Drum Music (Disc 1)	World
6.	State of Independence	Jon Anderson	State of Independence	Rock
7.	Island Magic	Dave Weckl	Master Plan	Jazz
8.	Carnival	Stan Kenton	Cuban Fire!	Jazz
9.	Wanted	The Cranberries	Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?	Alternative & Punk
10.	Hold on Hope	Guides by Voices	Scrubs	Soundtrack

$302 a foot!

(from the There’s One Born Every Minute dept.) (via email) James Randi’s Swift – September 28, 2007 MORE CABLE NONSENSE Several readers alerted us to yet another hilarious and preposterous situation in the “audiophile” business, which we have referred to frequently simply because if some of their claims were true, they would be paranormal. Here’s … Continue reading “$302 a foot!”