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Interactive ICQ Spam

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21 Nov 2002

I’ve received spam via ICQ before, but this one was different. It was inviting, luring me into conversation before springing the trap. I should have known. I shouldn’t have been suckered so easily.

Something didn’t feel right, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

166215654: Hi!!! Its Emma :-)
A Kalsey: Hello Emma.

I don’t think I know anyone named Emma. She’s gone a bit overboard with the punctuation. And her grammar’s a bit off.

166215654: I just made a place with my photos :-) Interesting?
A Kalsey: Uh, no.

More of that bad grammar. And again with the silly smileys... oh... photos. No, but thank you very much for thinking of me.

A spam bot, sending ICQ messages over the ethernet in hopes of finding poor lonely men who like bad grammar. And I’ll bet her name isn’t even Emma.

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