Are You Being Spammed?

[David Nebenzahl]

I just got an unsolicited email (therefore spam) that I suspect might have
come from someone reading this newsgroup. It's an invitation from someone
named LaMar Larsen to participate in a juried show by the Portneuf Valley
Photographic Society in Pocatello, Idaho. Has anyone else gotten this?

I'm tempted to call him up, and definitely would if it were an 800 number.


--
The Bush administration should restrain itself from its imperial arrogance
that has so alienated countries around the world. Their contempt for the
United Nations in the dash to war with Iraq; their support of the coup in
Venezuela in April 2002, and the continuing hostility toward President
Chavez; the pressure on nations of the world to exempt the US from the
International Criminal Court, now joined by their contemptuous attitude
toward President Aristide must be halted. It is time for the people of the
USA to make this point clear even if the administration continues to walk
around with wax in its collective ears, with eyes closed, and ranting about
its version of the world as defined by Bush.

- Excerpt from TransAfrica statement on the situation in Haiti, 2/17/04
(http://www.transafricaforum.org/)

[jjs]

In article >, David Nebenzahl
> wrote:

> I just got an unsolicited email (therefore spam) that I suspect might have
> come from someone reading this newsgroup. It's an invitation from someone
> named LaMar Larsen to participate in a juried show by the Portneuf Valley
> Photographic Society in Pocatello, Idaho. Has anyone else gotten this?

The toy camera guy? Whew. Too strange.

[Leonard Evens]

David Nebenzahl wrote:
> I just got an unsolicited email (therefore spam) that I suspect might
> have come from someone reading this newsgroup. It's an invitation from
> someone named LaMar Larsen to participate in a juried show by the
> Portneuf Valley Photographic Society in Pocatello, Idaho. Has anyone
> else gotten this?

Are you aware that a lot of spam comes with forged return email
addresses? It is possible to detect the actual source if you know how
to do it, but the return address is meaningless.

>
> I'm tempted to call him up, and definitely would if it were an 800 number.
>
>

[David Nebenzahl]

On 3/7/2004 6:41 AM Leonard Evens spake thus:

> David Nebenzahl wrote:
>
>> I just got an unsolicited email (therefore spam) that I suspect might
>> have come from someone reading this newsgroup. It's an invitation from
>> someone named LaMar Larsen to participate in a juried show by the
>> Portneuf Valley Photographic Society in Pocatello, Idaho. Has anyone
>> else gotten this?
>
> Are you aware that a lot of spam comes with forged return email
> addresses? It is possible to detect the actual source if you know how
> to do it, but the return address is meaningless.

Yes, I realize this (and certainly suffer from it--got a bounce message just
recently from a spam message that "I" sent out), but considering the content
of this message--it really was for a photo exhibition--I think it was he
himself. Even came with phone numbers.


--
The Bush administration should restrain itself from its imperial arrogance
that has so alienated countries around the world. Their contempt for the
United Nations in the dash to war with Iraq; their support of the coup in
Venezuela in April 2002, and the continuing hostility toward President
Chavez; the pressure on nations of the world to exempt the US from the
International Criminal Court, now joined by their contemptuous attitude
toward President Aristide must be halted. It is time for the people of the
USA to make this point clear even if the administration continues to walk
around with wax in its collective ears, with eyes closed, and ranting about
its version of the world as defined by Bush.

- Excerpt from TransAfrica statement on the situation in Haiti, 2/17/04
(http://www.transafricaforum.org/)