The weirdest spam I ever received

[therealjae]

I'm going through my inbox today, clearing out old messages, and I was reminded of this old spam email I got sometime in 2007:

This is an automated response. There is not a tone for your to leave a message. There is no one to return you message. This is it

Comments

[origamislayer]

Looks to me like someone took over a compromised account and this was their way of letting all interested parties know that it had been hacked and used to send spam. Alternatively, it could be interpreted as a response to spam (if someone had been spoofing your address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job ).

Either way I'd think something a bit more informational would have been a better choice.

[therealjae]

Thanks for the guesses! Both of those are more likely than anything I could come up with. ;-)

-J

[cream_t]

Yep, my guesses, too. Worth keeping for the quality of the flame - reading this can keep your toes warm of a cold Edmontonian winter's night! :-)

[vleeg]

It doesn't sound like spam to me.

When you send e-mail to a recipient but for some reason it doesn't get there (like when the address is incorrect or does not exist anymore) you get an automated response informing you of the problem.

These messages can be the default mail-daemon kind, or a manually set one.

[waterlelie]

Ik zie je vaak op Gewoon een vraag voorbij komen, add?

[therealjae]

Nou, in principe heb ik er niets op tegen, zolang het niet uitmaakt dat ik bijna twee keer zo oud ben als jij en vooral in het Engels schrijf! :)

-J

[waterlelie]

Voor mij geen probleem hoor! Ik voeg je toe!