On Sunday 24 March 2002 8:16 pm, John Chambers wrote:
> It looks like spam to me.  ICQ.com is a real company with a web site,
> so you can check it out.
>
> Probably what they're doing is trying to trick people into signing up
> for their service.  If you make the mistake of thinking that this has
> something to do with abcusers, and send back the form, you will be  a
> "member"  of ICQ.com's service.  That's probably fine, if you want to
> be a member.  But it's a rather underhanded way of getting people  to
> sign up.

It's a mail with a forged From: address: the web form target is on a sever 
on bravenet.com, which is an ISP in the USA, and the mail was sent from a 
machine in dol.com.tr in Turkey (probably an open mail relay). Nothing to 
do with ICQ at all.
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