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Spammed by Fun Ender

July 9, 2003 10:03:06 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Evidently it's a program pulling the names off the site because the referred to my wall as "Journeyman" but also know my first name. Anyone else getting this junk?

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Hi Richard, I just set your wallpaper "Journeyman" as my background, it is amazing how talented you are on creating imagery like this. www.wincustomize.com is a wonderful site for artwork, and if you want to upload your wallpapers onto another site for free to display your work, feel free to check out www.funender.com Everything is totally free, but it helps people who are not involved in Art Design to see your work. I hope you can take advantage of what www.funender.com has to offer, and share your beautiful artwork with others. You may upload the images in the Photo section located here http://www.funender.com/phpBB2/album.php and you may post about it in the Design Forums here if you wish http://www.funender.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=22
Hope to see you soon!
FuNEnD3R
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DaWebMassa
citats
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Reply #1 July 9, 2003 10:12:00 AM
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I would have to say that the email you posted above is not spam. It has been writen specifically with you in mind. It appears that one of the admins from that site like your work. You have an option to hide your email address if you so wish, that may prevent ppl from send unwanted mail on the other hand you may have the info in your readme files.
the only objection I would have is that it was not personnalized by the sender and signing funender instead.
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Reply #2 July 9, 2003 10:19:31 AM
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I would concur but.. since I have no wallpaper called "Journeyman" I can only assume the bot grabbed my WC title and through it in there. Also, the letter seems pretty geared towards pushing the site. We'll see if anyone else here has had the same problem.
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Reply #3 July 9, 2003 10:21:55 AM
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Wasn't that guy promoting his site here a few times ? (If I remember right...)
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DaWebMassa
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Reply #4 July 9, 2003 10:23:28 AM
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Very weird indeed... Sounds like a bot to me. What's really at the site? (Is too lazy to check himself)
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Reply #5 July 9, 2003 10:26:16 AM
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I just got the EXACT same email this morning...It had the correct title of my wallpaper...and my real name. >
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Reply #6 July 9, 2003 10:30:13 AM
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AHA! c242 has evidence of an intrusion and Zodiaq~ has proven my theory. SPAM it is!
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Reply #7 July 9, 2003 10:52:30 AM
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plus its a music site



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Reply #8 July 9, 2003 10:56:07 AM
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actually it is a message board with multiple formats. Music, wallpapers everything basically. one could still peruse the site and get that info pretty easily. The Bot idea would require some pretty smart scripting I would think but certainly not impossible.
Sounding stranger and stranger...
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Reply #9 July 9, 2003 11:50:58 AM
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Mwah. It has happened before. Occasionally I get messages about how they saw my skins and if I could visit site X and so on. Yet I have no skins up anywhere. Hmm...
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Reply #10 July 9, 2003 11:55:51 AM
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After checking out the site, it's actually not a bad site. Doesn't seem to be a lot of commercialism there so perhaps he collected a few names from here just to get some more members. There is a Dark Mist there but not sure if it's "our" Dark Mist.
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Reply #11 July 9, 2003 4:43:22 PM
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That sounds familiar. I think I remember seeing him post a couple topics about his site on here.



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Reply #12 July 9, 2003 10:09:49 PM
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I got that exact e-mail too.......I binned it.
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