anyone else get this (spam)?

flogen

I think it's spam, but not sure what for or why.

Hi Adam,
My name is Ela and I really enyoj your blog. I don't know why, but I couldn't comment it, so I write to you by mail. I always wanted to know how looks the life in Dublin and what people live in that city. I will visit your town this august and I'm very happy of it. I write to you because I want to practis my English and I think that we've got a lot of similar thoughts. Maybe you will check who I am?
take care,
Ela

The reason I think it's spam is because the address it's sent to is not the one I have up on my blog site, but it doesn't seem to be selling anything or have any attachments. Anyone else get this? Perhaps this crazy interweb has made me too paranoid for my own good and it's genuine, I just don't think so.

secret_squirrel

Sounds like a russian bride to me! Next thing you will know is she will be asking you to send her presents.

aidan_walsh

You mean I sent it to the wrong address? Damn.

Ela.

astec123

What you do is get another email address and reply to it that is unless your address is posted on the site!

BlitzKrieg

did she/he say anything about being a nigerian prince/princess?

dudara

BlitzKrieg wrote:

did she/he say anything about being a nigerian prince/princess?

They save that for the second date

flogen

Russian bride? Could be worse I guess!

My address isn't on my blog, another one is that forwards emails to my regular address (but when I check the to: field it will tell me it was sent to the secondary address I have, this one went straight to my primary address which I dont have anywhere).

Guess it's time for asl and a pic request!

BlitzKrieg

you go dog!!!

out of interest is this Livejournal blogs you talk of? Cause there's this
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenance/106377.html on the livejournal website, mentioning an e-mail spam.

BlitzKrieg

on the topic of spam, i got an email today saying something about a petition to stop msn messenger being turned into a fee paying program?

i assume thats spam right?

flogen

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out of interest is this Livejournal blogs you talk of? Cause there's this
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenance/106377.html on the livejournal website, mentioning an e-mail spam.

nah, it's blogger. There's a chance it could be legit, the problem with commenting could be to do with the setting I had that only registered people could comment. Changed it since.

just got an reply; she says her real name is Anna something, she loves tennis but can't play because of an injury or some crap. anyway....

it's not an injury, she's a whale, steer clear.

DeBeere

how the hell is this 'spam'?

if it was spam it would be a bit like this
' hi my names ela and i am writing to you because you just won the russian lottery. Congratulations , to claim you giant cheque just give me all your credit card details. thank you

love Ela,

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bottom line not spam

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DeBeere

erm im also trashed

flogen

well spam is unsolicited mail, which this is.
What you just described is phising.
tbh the only thing I don't get is how the e-mailer got my primary e-mail address.
Ah, never mind, I'm not going to reply anyways, just wanted to see if anyone else got something similar before.

DeBeere

oh sorry mate, just seen your post and was like ' he aint getting spamed' cause im sure you and i know what spam is (who doesnt).If its just a bird ignore her she probably is a whale :P