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Obvious Junk Mail

Kamangir | January 28, 2006 | Category Iran

I am familiar with junk mails that ask you to forward them to ten or twenty friends of yours. There is also always some kind of threat underneath. This is the most recent one. Unfortunately, I see more than one hundred email addresses engaged in this scenario. Below, I tried to show a few reasons why it is clear that this is junk mail.

Dear YAHOO User,
Because of the sudden rush of people signing up to YAHOO, it has come to our attention that we are vastly running out of resources. So, within a month’s time, anyone who does not receive this email with the exact subject heading,will be deleted off our server. Please forward this email so that we know you are still using this account.
We want to find out which users are actually using their YAHOO accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass this e-mail to every YAHOO user that you can and IF YOU DO NOT PASS this letter to anyone we will delete your account.
From Mr. ALLEN SMITH
YAHOO Admin. Dept.

Our YAHOO system is getting to crowded!! We need you to forward this to at least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, but we need to find out who is really using their account. If you do not send this to at least 10 YAHOO members, we will delete your account. Sorry for this inconvenience.
Sincerely, Director of YAHOO Services

BOB LOPEZ

1- The official name is Yahoo! not YAHOO.

2- You barely see something written on capital letters unless it is seriously important. You may see attention about hazardous aspect of drugs in all capital letters. No body uses a sentence which starts with some words in capital letters and then continuing in small letters.

3- There is a logical problem with this email. First it says anyone who does not receive such email will be deleted. Then, it asks you to forward it to show that you are using this account.

4- Using colors in text is not common at all. You will never see an institute highlighting its name using color, except when you are reading a flyer.

5- Who signs his letter like “From ….”?
6- Who uses a syntax like “Our Yahoo! system”?
7- Is it getting “to crowded” or “too crowded”?
8- Using two exclamation signs is registered to junk mail writers.
9- Who writes his own name in capital letters?
10- So, director of Yahoo! services threatens Yahoo! Administration department chief that he will delete him?
11- How many official letters you have seen that are aligned to center?

p.s. Nazi!