# Monday, November 29, 2004

Es ist soweit:

Due to uncontrollable spam, we regret we are unable to receive email at this address.

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Thank you

Danke, liebe Spammer!

Monday, November 29, 2004 3:32:38 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Monday, November 22, 2004

Auch der BLfH bekommt Spam-Juwelen, diesmal von einer "Microsoft" Lotterie - putzig auf welche kranken Ideen die kommen (siehe Punkt "we encourage globalization" in Zeile 4):

"MICROSOFT  EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
FROM:  INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD .
           PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE  GLOBE
                      ( WE ENCOURAGE  GLOBALIZATION)

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Microsoft B.V. Boeing Avenue 44 9459 PE Schiphol-Rijk.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the  results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT
LOTTERY INT. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category, which is
part of our promotional draws. The draws were held
on  20th November 2004 and results are being officially
announced today 22nd of November 2004. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529,
with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 
and consequently won in the First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out
of 1,000,000 (One  Million Euros), which is the
winning payout for Category A  winners. This is from the total prize
money from 2,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and
names of any kind, we request that you keep the
entire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the process of transferring your claims has
been completed, and your funds remitted to your
account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants/nonparticipants of this program.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice:
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary
agent.

Mr. Harvey Kurt,
Prudent Trust Agency
Email:thisemailaddress@wasremoved.BLfH
1156 H T NL-6400 AA SITTARD
AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS,


You are advised to contact the agents by email
within a week of receiving this notice.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.ELIZABETH MOUS.

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
MICROSOFT INT.

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of
the winners will result to disqualification. Please do
not  reply to this mail. Contact your fiduciary agent
immediately. "

So ein Pech - habe ich es doch glatt gepostet und werde disqualifiziert...

Monday, November 22, 2004 6:31:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Saturday, November 20, 2004

Die 419er werden immer kreativer: im Namen Allahs soll ich zig Millionen Dollar von einem zum Islam bekehrten, gelähmten Kubaner mit Geschäftsbeziehungen in die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate bekommen um Gutes im Namen Allahs zu tun???

Das ist zwar schon ein wenig sehr weit hergeholt, aber immerhin unterhaltsam, daher hier der Text in voller Länge (mit vermurkster Emailadresse selbstverständlich):

"Assalamualaikum,

In the name of Allah the Beneficent; the Merciful, the Master of the day of Judgement, I greet you in the name of Allah. I am formally Miguel Marcos Llera from Cuba.I was born into a devoted catholic family.All through my life i have been doing business and i was into gold mining and selling. I met our creator and the meciful one Almigthy Allah when i was having a business deal with one of my partners from U.A.E and from the day i was given the Islamic bath my name changed to Al Ahli Usman. On 10th Feburary 2004 myself and my family and my business partner took a flight from kish to sharjah and we flew kish airline.We had a plane crash and all members of my family including my very good friend lost thier lives.I give thanks to Allah that i am one of the lucky ones that survived the crash.The airline was under the management ofone Mr Shabab Attarzadeh who was later sacked after this incidence.I had to return to my home town in cuba and i am now left with my relatives to take care of me. Owing to the fact that i was born into a catholic home and my family members know that i am now a devoted moslem,they have neglected me and left me to suffer pain.I know i am not going to survive this whole pain anymore.what disturbs me most is my stroke sickness and now that i have developed paralyses from my waist region downward i am taking this bold step to let you know that i want to leave in your care the sum of $12.6M(Twelve Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars) i deposited in a security company for the enhancement and propagation of the word of Almigthy Allah. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a mosque,or an islamic organisation or better still a moslem that will utilize this funds the way I am going to instruct here in.

My main aim of doingthis is for the propagation and upholding of the message of Islam.My target area is the youth whom the future of any great country largely lies on.In the western world,you find out that the message of Allah has not yet really gotten there.The message of Islam must not only be preached and upheld,but also our youths have to be called back to the right path and thereby reawaken their consciousness. I want you also to use this funds for the poor and the needy.Build old peoples home and orphanages.For the fact that my relatives are not ready to comply with me and they claim christanity is the way i am now resting my dream in life on your shoulders. Even as you agree to help me carry out this duty i want you always remember that:

1. Allah won't ask what kind of car you drove, but will ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation. 2.Allah won't ask what your highest salary was, but will ask if you compromised your character ormorals to obtain that salary. 3.Allah won't ask the square footage of your house, but will ask how many people you welcomed into your home. 4.Allah won't ask about the fancy clothes you had in your closet, but will ask how many of those clothes helped the needy. 5.Allah won't ask about your social status, but will ask what kind of class you displayed. 6.Allah won't ask how many material possessions you had, but will ask if they dictated your life. 7.Allah won't ask how much overtime you worked, but will ask if you worked overtime for your family and loved ones. 8.Allah won't ask how many promotions you received, but will ask how you promoted others. 9.Allah won't ask what your job title was, but will ask if you did your job to the best of your ability. 10.Allah won't ask what you did to help yourself, but will ask what you did to help others. 11.Allah won't ask how many friends you had, but will ask how many people to whom youwere a true friend. 12.Allah won't ask what you did to protect your rights, but will ask what you did to protect the rights of others. 13.Allah won't ask in what neighborhood you lived, but will ask how you treated your neighbors. 14.Allah won't ask about the color of your skin, but will ask about the content of your character. 15.Allah won't ask how many times your deeds matched your words, but will ask how many times they didn't.

For the now i dont want any calls from you because of the presence of my relatives that are always around me and i dont want them to know my palns. Do get back at me to my private mail address usman_br@maskedemailadress.blah

Hoping to hear from you soonest and do notify your interest to help me to propagate islam. All praise is due to Allah Who brought everything into existence and may the peace and blessing of Allah be upon our noble Prophet Mohammed and those who follow his footsteps till the day of Judgement. May Allah bless you as you respond to my plea.

Ma-Salam,

Al Ahli Usman."

Ein entsprechendes christliches Exemplar habe ich zwar auch bekommen, das war allerdings nicht so liebevoll gestaltet - und irgendwie war der christliche Spam auch nicht so von Liebe Gottes und Nächstenliebe geprägt. Macht einen nachdenken...

 

Saturday, November 20, 2004 10:47:52 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Nicht nur Optik Hahn macht Brillen, mein Bruder ebenso. Da er nicht Noten lesen kann, dürfte die Sehschärfe nicht das ultimative Kriterium sein in dem Fall...

Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:50:57 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Monday, November 01, 2004

Eine offizielle Nachlese und inoffizielle Fotos kursieren bereits, ein BLfH-Blog-worthy Foto war aber noch am Handy versteckt - ein Schnellimbiß / was-auch-immer Lokal bei dem alle Speisen auf '-ski' enden:

Schlimmski.

Monday, November 01, 2004 6:17:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Sunday, October 31, 2004

Nach langer Blogpause (Während man einen Steinbruch kartiert ist online einfach nicht drin) meldet sich der Assistant BLfH mit einer Perle aus seiner Yahoo-mailbox wieder. Phishing kennt man ja. Normalerweise geben sich Phisher auch grosse Mühe ihre Betrugsversuche offiziell aussehen zu lassen, aber offensichtlich gibt es in der Branche auch Spezialisten die das anders sehen und tricksen probieren. Hier nun das fragliche Mail, empfangen selbstredend natürlich mit meiner eigenen Adresse als gespooftem Absender:

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Im Text stecken unsichtbare Steuerzeichen, die die Buchstabenreihenfolge bei der Anzeige ändern sollten um einen lesbaren Text zu erzeugen (manche Textboxen tun das auch brav). Leider, leider ignoriert Yahoo diese Steuerzeichen... Und die URL ist natürlich sowieso suspekt. Wer findet die echte URL da drin?

Selber ausgetrickst, lieber Phisher...

Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:56:50 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

Teilgenommen an der Veranstaltung des "Vereins zum Schutze der gedemütigten Lederhose" hat der Bruder des BLfH, seine Urkunde ist heute im Zuge einer Razzia im gemeinschaftlichen Saufhaufen aufgetaucht:

Sunday, October 31, 2004 9:59:22 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Saturday, October 23, 2004

Im Eintrag Höhere Fremdenverkehrsmathematik im Salzkammergut habe ich gezeigt, wie das kleine 1x1 bei uns in der Gegend zu funktionieren scheint - und daß es nicht gerade günstig bei uns in der Gegend ist. An das habe ich diese Woche in Barcelona des öfteren denken müssen, eine Rechnung habe ich mir zu Beweiszwecken aufgehoben:

Merke: am Flughafen einer Stadt wie Barcelona kann man günstiger leben (egal ob Cola, Mineralwasser oder Kaffee) als bei uns im Salzkammergut. Auch Hotelbars (Preis pro Nacht > 150 Euro) bieten Capuccino billiger als 2 Euro an. Man darf sich veräppelt vorkommen.

Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:15:58 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Monday, October 18, 2004

ist der RSS Feed für die Geschichten des Bastard Operators from Hell (BOfH).

Monday, October 18, 2004 7:51:28 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Aus (leider) gegebenem Anlaß habe ich die allgemeinen Listenregeln um 2 Punkte erweitert: wie Disclaimer geahndet werden, sowie Allgemeines von unserer Seite (in Anlehnung an den Disclaimer von Attrition).

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:18:53 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]