The Phishing Phairy delivered me good tidings today!
Dear Mr/Mrs
My name is Veronica ,I am the Current CEO of BankInter Branch office in Madrid Spain, we offer Xmas loans with a minimum interest rate of 1%. Fill the application form for immediate process.
LOAN APPLICATION FORM
NAME............. FULL ADDRESS..... CITY............. STATE........... ZIP CODE......... COUNTRY.......... TEL.............. Sex............. LOAN AMOUNT NEEDED.... LOAN PURPOSE......... OCCUPATION.................................. MONTHLY INCOME.......................... LOAN DURATION PERIOD............................... Other Contact E-mai:
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL APPLICATION/INQUIRIES SHOULD BE SENT TO intercustomercareservice@live.com AS THIS ADVERT IS SENT FROM OUR PUBLIC OFFER CENTER
Thanks Mrs Veronica
It's good to know I can get a Xmas loan from Mrs Veronica with only 1% interest! Where do I sign up?! Oh wait! I can sign up in my email!
The American election system is in trouble. Why you ask? The strings holding the pens to the voting booths are attached at the right side, and are much too short! How is a lefty supposed to vote if he can't mark the right areas on the ballot!?
I kid, I kid.
A funny/odd coincidence happened to me after I filled out my ballot. I placed the ballot in the scanner machine, and it registered the number "666", which I assume means that I was the 666th person to vote. Some of the older ladies running the voting area were like "uh oh! 6-6-6!" After I got back to the car, I turned on my iPod, which was on random. The Slayer song "Cult" came on as I was buckling my seat belt, which, oddly enough, has the following lyrics..
I've made my choice. Six six six
While I doubt they were referring to the voting process, the coincidence struck me as funny. I guess that means I'll be voting Slayer in 2012.
It has been a loooong time since I posted. Yes, I'm still alive (obviously). Hopefully posting funny malware emails will make me more chatty.
From: "Microsoft Corp." Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows
Dear Microsoft Customer,
Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows. The update applies to the following OS versions: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.
Please notice, that present update applies to high-priority updates category. In order to help protect your computer against security threats and performance problems, we strongly recommend you to install this update.
Since public distribution of this Update through the official website http://www.microsoft.com would have result in efficient creation of a malicious software, we made a decision to issue an experimental private version of an update for all Microsoft Windows OS users.
As your computer is set to receive notifications when new updates are available, you have received this notice.
In order to start the update, please follow the step-by-step instruction: 1. Run the file, that you have received along with this message. 2. Carefully follow all the instructions you see on the screen.
If nothing changes after you have run the file, probably in the settings of your OS you have an indication to run all the updates at a background routine. In that case, at this point the upgrade of your OS will be finished.
We apologize for any inconvenience this back order may be causing you.
Thank you,
Steve Lipner Director of Security Assurance Microsoft Corp.
Attached was the file "KB779778.exe". Yah... I'm totally going to run that! I think my favorite part was the PGP signature. It's probably encoded code that will send someone to nasty sites, or something similar. The sad thing is that this one will probably fool a lot of people who don't know any better.
A notice to those that don't know any better... If you get this email, don't execute the attachment. It will do ugly things to your windows computer, in all likelihood.
Matt and I have this "traditional" method of greeting during IM conversations. I don't know how it started, but we've been doing it for a while. One person starts with "word", the other responds with "pwnt". That sequence happened once again today, and I reflected upon it.
Matt: word. Mike: pwnt Mike: I have to wonder how many times we've opened up conversations with those two exact words Matt: haha, i'm sure a mysql query could answer that for you Mike: heh, yah Matt: but now i have to wonder exactly how many questions could be answered by mysql queries on your servers. lol Mike: rofl Mike: oh you know me too well
I found that rather funny, so I pasted it over to my buddy Justin, who had this to say...
Mike: I just think it's comical that I've got so much logged on my machines Mike: I had this vision of running a query against a DB on my boxes to solve the dark matter mystery Justin: haha Justin: i think your logs ARE the dark matter
I'm not really a fan of posting youtube videos as content, but this is too good to pass up.
I realize that beauty pageant types aren't typically expected to be rocket scientists, but ... wow. Just... wow.
EDIT: Apparently there are others that feel that U.S. Americans, South Africans, and Iraqis don't have enough maps, so they've made a site where you can donate your maps! Please! Think of the children!
(13:22:24) widow: my roommates make a lot of noise when they wake up (13:23:12) widow: i dont know what that strange noise mark makes is (13:23:37) widow: but i wouldnt even know how to try replicating it, i have no clue what part of the body it comes from. (13:25:01) mike: rofl
I've documented before that I very rarely remember detail from my dreams. I just woke up from a dream that had me laughing. I was back at my parents' house, which has a large field behind it that's owned by the township, and was recently converted into a park. Jurassic Park apparently. In my dream, there was a very large meat-eating type dinosaur, visually similar to the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, trooping around on the far side of the field. I remember being out in the back yard and not thinking much of it, so apparently the four foot high cyclone fence my parents have in the back yard is good at stopping a T-Rex. I remember some incident with it coming up towards the fence and getting all pissed off because it got caught in the power lines. I think that prompted me to go inside.
While inside, I walked into the bathroom to do my business apparently, and I notice that something is trying to wedge the window open. Whatever it is starts to succeed, and I see a head start to emerge. Yep, it's a Velociraptor. So rather than doing something intelligent like grabbing a knife or a very large blunt object, apparently my first thought was to punch the thing. So I start punching this Velociraptor, who has succeeded in getting stuck in the window, with only its head abd neck showing through . The thing I laugh at is look the thing gives me when I start punching it. It rocks it's head to the side and gives a look in a fashion that can only say "Are you daft?! As soon as I get out of this damned window, I'm going to splay your guts open for spite, because that's just the way I roll." I woke up after that. Apparently I didn't want to stay around to see my guts splayed.