See http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/wordofmouth.asp
Alon > Hi all, > > I'm sorry about the off topic posting. Every so often I get an > onsolicited mail announcing that someone posted a report about me, or > that someone is looking for information, on a site called "Word of > Mouth". The site is at http://www.wordofmouthconnection.com. > > The site baldly claims that "this is not spam", and that the email was > triggered to inform me that someone is searching for information, or is > offering information, about me. > > Now here's the catch - the searches in that site are performed according > to email address. There is someone that claims to "know me well", using > an address that I have only used once, for a specific purpose, and never > with friends! > > What's more interesting is that every so often someone actually performs > a search on that site for that very same (only rarely used) address! Not > even spammers bother with this address any more. Google doesn't show any > results when searching for it. > > Now I'm at a loss. Either someone is attempting a very strange sort of > slander (why would someone look for me under that email?), or this is > such a soficticated sort of spam, that I have not managed to figure out > what it is (maybe they are selling commercials at the site for the > confused people who want to walk in and find out what the !%&([EMAIL PROTECTED]&!() > the email is about). > > Any ideas would be greatly appretiated. > > Shachar > > -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- For gin, in cruel Sober truth, Supplies the fuel For flaming youth. -- Noel Coward ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
