Weirdest Spam Ever

johnny_ultimate

Strange emails have been arriving in the inbox lately. Yesterday myself and a friend (we have both booked flights to Tokyo next summer with a reputable European airline) received an email claiming to be from an individual named - and I **** you not - Hat Hatstand (!). The message was unusual in that it knew our dates of departure, our airline and destination. The rest of the email was badly translated nonsense urging us to vote yes in the Lisbon Treaty, and some gibberish about a GOOD IDEA POLICY. A peculiar incident, and we were both quite suspicious of each other, assuming that the other party had cooked up an elaborate - albeit completely bizarre - prank. Both of us sent the offending email to the darkest recesses of our spam folders, putting the whole unusual incident down to experience.

So today a fellow by the name of Jorg Harrison emailed me with the following notice:
Dear Mr. Jonathan Ultimate (Note: This is copied word for word, so yes, he did refer to me as Jonathan Ultimate, which thankfully suggests they are not aware of my real, less idiotic real name),

Welcome to the Europe Group and our Lisbon Campaign. We are happy to assist your plans by succeeding in being pro-Lisbon each today and tomorrow until the day of major decision making. We will soon email you a PDF starting pack to help motivate your subjects to be a Lisbon yes-voter. If you would like any extra information parts it is possible to return a mail to this address and we can supply you with appropraite knowledge.

As you are privy to, the Lisbon Yes will allow greater travel to and from The Asian countries through helpful service-making around the continent. The European ThinkTank, a subsidiary of the Europe Group, has informed us of your plans to have a Tokyo July and we are of great curiosity to aid you with this if you succeed in winning us the election in the Ireland State. This may involve you to relinquish your Irish Catholic religion (note: I am unsure about whether this is a thinly veiled threat or not)over controversial topics such as Priesthood affected by Lisbon, or Infrastructural methods that will improve living qualities for all involved.

I have worked closely with other Appraisers in Belgium and Italy in the past and we are delighted to have you and your company online for our great achievements, as we know you can help us earn the Lisbon Yes. We are greatful that you have agreed to act as part of the Good Idea Policy appointed to you by the European Think Tank Group.

We will continue correspondance with you shortly, we are delighted in anticipation of your next email.

Wishes,
Jorg Harrisson.

If you have received this email, it means that you, or someone pretending to be you, has confirmed your Lisbon Appraisal Unit membership with the Europe Group.

Europe Presidency Group, a subsidiary of the Europe Group and benefactors of the European ThinkTank Initiative and Pro-Lisbon Alliance.
Please think kindly of the Environment before Printing this electronic-message.
Thank you kindly.

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So what the hell are these bizarre emails? Just the usual spam from some individual who has managed to successfully gained a very minimal amount of knowledge about our travel plans? A friend playing a well thought out joke? Or the reputable European airline giving out personal information (a slightly worrying, but hopefully unlikely, prospect)?

Setun

Well having read it in full, that is highly odd.

TPD

Ask them to pay for your trip to asia in return for you handing out flyers and crap.