• 03-14-2009, 02:56 PM
    Swish
    Anyone else hear from Chip, or is this some...
    ...kind of spam. It was indeed his e-mail address, but I think it's the latter. Some other RR members were included in the e-mail and I can't for the life of me believe this is really from him, based on all the typos and errors in syntax. Check it out;


    New shopping!New life!
    Dear friend,
    How are you doing recently?I’d like to introduce
    you a good company who mainly sell many electronic
    products such as laptops, cameras,mobile
    phones,TV,GPS,PS3,MP3/4,Motorbikes etc.Now the
    company take some measures to promate their
    products,all the goods are sold at its cost nearly
    .They can guarantee the higher quality, lower price
    and better services.What's more important,the price
    is really a big surprising happiness for shopping!
    Just catch the chance,just do it!Their official
    website:www.ffwld.com

    I won't even venture to the website. I guess I'll shoot 'ole Chip an e-mail and await his response.

    Swish - not taking the bait
  • 03-14-2009, 04:06 PM
    MindGoneHaywire
    I contacted him & let him know about it a few minutes after I got it. He may have picked up a virus.
  • 03-15-2009, 09:05 AM
    02audionoob
    Those syntax errors certainly don't look like the doing of someone named Chip, unless Chip is a name common to non-English-speaking regions of the world.
  • 03-15-2009, 10:17 AM
    Swish
    He already replied to my PM and informed me that he...
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by MindGoneHaywire
    I contacted him & let him know about it a few minutes after I got it. He may have picked up a virus.

    ...was a hacker victim, at least on his Hotmail account. I thought G-Mail was pretty safe but a friend of my daughter had his e-mail account there hacked. What a pain.