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After my recent email to Mr. Mike David, honourable online money giver, stating that I had not heard from his personal assistant, one Mr. Brown, I received an email which I know is very important, because the entire message is written in the subject.
From: BOB MIKE <GLOBAL4com@spinfinder.com>
Reply-To: GLOBAL4com@spinfinder.com
To: smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com
Date: Sep 19, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: Dear Samuel Please contact Mr. Brown at ( info@diplomaticservice.net )
Mike David
So, as requested, I contacted Mr. Brown on his new email address…I am a bit confused about the sanity of Mike David though, he seems to be unsure of his own name as he is using “BOB MIKE” in the from field of his emails these days.
From: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com> Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: info@diplomaticservice.net
Date: Sep 19, 2006 7:14 PM
Subject: Consignment for Mr. Mike David
Dear Mr. Brown,
Mike David has asked me to contact you regarding his consignment, which he would like me to pick up for him as he is too busy with investing at the moment.
Please contact me so that we may make the arrangements.
Blissful Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
This time, Mr Brown was rather prompt at replying, and presented me with a very professional email (albeit with broken english).
From: info@diplomaticservice.net <info@diplomaticservice.net>
To: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Consignment for Mr. Mike David
DIPLOMATIC GLOBAL SERVICE
CONSIGNMENT CLEARING HOUSE
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
EUROPE OFFICE TEL - 31 644 271 874
TEL /FAX - 31 847 473 477
E-MAIL; info@diplomaticservice.net
E-Mail - spin-diplomta@spinfinder.com
Attn : Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Please do let us know any of the following ways that will be more
convenient for you to collect this consignment .
1 )Me coming with the diplomat to deliver the consignment to your country.
2 )Me sending you the consignment by diplomatic courier services.
3) You coming to the Netherlands to pick up the consignment .
I dont have a representative in your state to whom you could pay
the requested amount at reception,so I can send a diplomat.
Please do let me hear from you as soon as possible.
THANKS
GEORGE BROWN
DIPLOMATIC GLOBAL SERVICE
CONSIGNMENT CLEARING HOUSE
AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS
EUROPE OFFICE TEL–31 644 271 874
HEAD OFFICE TEL\FAX 31 847473477
E-MAIL; info@diplomaticservice.net
Operational GraphOpe tio
We are neither just an off shore office nor are we only on shore ……..WE ARE BOTH; We touch base at every nook and cranny of the country. That is why you ‘ll always find DIPLOMATIC GLOBAL SERVICE up North ,down South, East and West. Our amiable record is borne out of the philosophy of clients satisfaction, we offer our clients the following services: Traditional services , Visible Transaction Services, Exports Desk Services and Public Sectors Services.
We are totally devoted to you
You’ve just gotta love this poor attempt at a company footer on that email…usually they ramble on about how the email is confidential and the company won some award for something last week…but this one just rambles…it may have come out of an automated translator.
Anyway, I looked at the options and thought for a while about them. Surely if Mr. Brown were to visit my country with a diplomat they would want me to pay for the airfares, if they send it via courier they are going to make me pay for the courier and then tell me some story about the parcel getting lost…and there is no way I’m flying to the Netherlands just to meet people who don’t exist and pick up a parcel which also doesn’t exist…although they would probably insist on buying the airline tickets and making me pay them for the tickets before they mail them to me.
In the end, I decided that I could have more fun if I insisted on Mr. Brown flying to Australia. Time to bring out the waffle iron for this email.
From: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com> Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: “info@diplomaticservice.net” <info@diplomaticservice.net>
Date: Sep 19, 2006 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Consignment for Mr. Mike David
Dear George,
It is my firm belief that this consignment is very important, and as such I feel that the only way to ensure the safe arrival and delivery of the consignment is for yourself to accompany the diplomat and the consignment to my country of residence (Australia). I do hope that you are able to spare some time in the nearby future, as this would be highly fortuitous and prove to be the most fruitful outcome of goodness for all parties involved.
Many regards and thoughtful wishes,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Where to from here…well it all depends on where Mr. Brown leads me I suppose…I wonder what my chances are of reversing the scam and getting money from them?
Samuel
September 20th, 2006 at 01:12am
Having not heard back from Mr. Brown, personal assistant to Mike David, nearly 24 hours after sending him an email, I decided to contact Mike david and find out what is going on. I have never failed to receive a reply from a scammer before, so something must be wrong.
From: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com> Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: global4com@spinfinder.com
Date: Sep 16, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: consignment
Dear Friend Mike,
I have tried to contact your personal assistant Mr. Brown, I did this nearly 24 hours ago, and I am yet to hear back from him. Please contact me with advice as to what you would like me to do next.
Blissful regards,
Samuel
I do hope this doesn’t end here…I haven’t had my fun yet, and I don’t want the spammers to get the song in the title stuck in my head, only two weeks after I got rid of it!
Samuel
September 16th, 2006 at 11:10pm
Oh how I love wasting the time (and money) of scammers. It’s easy to waste the money of phone based scammers, especially when they have free call numbers setup to divert overseas…at their own cost, but it is just as enjoyable to waste the time of email based scammers.
Last month Clayton Northcutt had plenty of fun doing just that, and this month I am going to have some fun.
Occasionally some spam slips through Gmail’s spam filters and lands in my inbox, such as this one from Dr. Mona Diop, an illiterate bank manager, with a need to steal the money of dead people.
Dear ,
My name is Dr Mona Diop,am the branch and computer manager here in our bank.I have only written to seek your indulgence and assistance. I wish to make a transfer involving a huge amount of base £15,000,000.00 {Fifteen Million B.Pounds Sterlings}of Late Mr Mark Smith out of the bank,he died since 1995,till now the account remains dormat.I am proposing to make this transfer to a designated bank account of your choice. Thus, for your indulgence and support,
I propose an offer of 20% of the total amount to be yours after the transfer has been successfully concluded.Your full name and phone number/fax is need in the first place.Kindly reply me stating your interest, and I shall furnish you with the details and necessary proceedures with which to make the transfer progress. I am anxiously awaiting your response through my confidential/bank email address:
mona_diop02@yahoo.com
Thanks and God bless
Dr Mona Diop,
Manger.
………………………….
My Informations will be given
to you in my next mail.
Fairly standard, nothing new or interesting about this one, but she (or maybe even he) did send it twice, and on both occasions it slipped past the spam filter, so I felt like replying.
Dear Spammer Mona,
Banks do not use yahoo email addresses, and if you were a manager, you would be able to write an email without dozens of spelling and gramatical errors.
I must ask you a question though, why is everything from Rivers just so comfortable?
Kind regards,
Samuel
For those of you who aren’t subjected to Australian television…there is a clothing shop called “Rivers” which has an advertising campaign featuring a slideshow of their current discounts, and a poorly recorded voiceover where a person keeps repeating the phrase “Why is everything from Rivers just so comfortable”. The ad annoys the heck out of me, so I thought it was an appropriate question to ask a spammer, alas she/him/it didn’t answer the question.
Dear Samuel ,
what you have to believe this is my personal email address so if you can believe with then try and get back to me so that i will direct the way to take ,
thanks
Dr Mona
Sorry Mona, but you didn’t address two of my points, and your scam isn’t interesting, so I shall refrain from contacting you again.
Last night, another, slightly more interesting spammed scam landed in my inbox.
From: mike david <global4com@spinfinder.com>
Reply-To: global4com@spinfinder.com
To: smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com
Date: Sep 15, 2006 9:51 PM
Subject: consignment
Dear Friend
I need your assistance to help me in receiving my funds form a security office in the Netherlands .
I am obliged to inform you that I have succeeded in receiving ( fourteen million dollars ) from a partner that work with the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) South African .
My partner initiated this idea so everything was perfectly done because we strike this deal with one Lady accountant who works with the Federal Ministry of Finance also she rendered a tremendous help to us and everything worked out successfully .
I will appreciate your assistance in receiving the Funds and I have decided to compensate you with the sum of $850,000 in Cash (Eight Hundred and fifty Thousand United States Dollars).
I am doing this simply to show you that it is good to do good things to the right people always.
So if you can help please contact my personal assistant with the security office in the Netherlands
Mr Brown with this e-mail address
( spin-diplomta@spinfinder.com )
Please tell him that you will like to pick up my consignment and do not tell him that the five million is in the Box, also do let me know immediately you receive a reply from Mr Brown .
I am very busy here in London because of the investment projects,So feel free to get in touch with him to send the consignment to you without any delay and I will fax him the paper works in-other for you to pick it up.
Best Regards
Mike David
Mr. Brown? Alternating amounts of money in a box/case? Secrecy even from those involved? And no bank accounts in sight? I’m reminded of Clayton’s fun, and intend on seeing where this one goes, so I, as requested, made contact with Mr. Brown.
From: Samuel Gordon-Stewart <smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com> Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: spin-diplomta@spinfinder.com
Date: Sep 16, 2006 12:27 AM
Subject: consignment of Mike David
Dear Mr. Brown,
I am writing to you in regards to an email I received from Mr. Mike David. He asked me to write to you about picking up his consignment, and asked that I express my interest in picking up the consignment.
I eargerly await your reply on this important matter.
Yours with kind regards and wishing you a blissful day,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
I just had to honour Clayton by adding in the blissful day reference (see Clayton’s story and you’ll understand). I googled spinfinder.com, it would appear that many people have received scam emails from this domain, and the site itself appears to be one of those strange attempts at being a web portal that bombards you with ads, and some of the ads on that page do redirect you through adware and spyware laden sites on their way through to the target sites.
I now await a reply from Mr. Brown.
Samuel
September 16th, 2006 at 12:57am
Serial detractor Sam Granleese (we previously met Sam here) has sent in an email titled “Good News”
Hi Samuel,
I wrote to you a few months ago declaring your website to be the most trite piece of word-vomit on the known internet.
Upon returning, it is good to see that nothing has changed. You are still trying to lose your virginity by going to www.tammin.com, you are still a freak and you still have nothing interesting to say about anything.
Congratulations!
Sam
I decided, with some trepedation, to visit the website he mentioned so that I could work out what he was going on about…it turned out to be the website of some singer I’ve never heard of before. I still can’t work out what he is going on about…I don’t find her in the least bit attractive.
On the bright side, it would appear that Sam is still wasting his time reading websites of people he doesn’t like, and making sure that they know about it…either that or he secretly finds this site so interesting and entertaining that he has to make sure he gets to take part in the fun and excitement…I’ll let you decide.
Next email is from “bob759″ (sorry for bundling you into the same post as Sam Granleese) who writes
You said “I (generally) can’t check the website, or update it, from work”, does that mean you had the day off yesterday as you updated the blog many times
No Bob, I scheduled the posts to appear throughout the day…that is my standard practice for all but the most urgent posts as it keeps the site “ticking over” and means I don’t post five things at once, which effectively buries most of the posts for the majority of readers who don’t often venture past the first post. For the record, the majority of those posts were written in the wee hours of Friday morning, with one written earlier in the week.
Samuel
July 16th, 2006 at 08:25am
Remember the loonies who took offence at my opinion of Summernats? Well they seem to have long memories.
Yesterday afternoon I was returning to work at the end of lunch, and walked the long way back in to the office (as I was a tad early) which involved walking around a corner on to the footpath on one side of Northbourne Avenue at a busy major intersection (this did not involve crossing the road). The vehicles travelling southbound on Northbourne were stopped at a red light, which meant they had plenty of time to see people walking, and potentially recognise them.
Anyway, as I was getting closer to my building, the cars travelling southbound received the green light, and as such, started moving, it was around this time that I started to hear a rather rowdy noise eminating from one of the vehicles…I turned my head to take a look (I was walking in a southbound direction) and could see somebody yelling from one of the cars, as they got even closer and passed me it became apparent that it was actually a tirade of expletives and excessive use of the word “nerd”. It also became apparent that it was more than one person yelling from the car, and that the tirade was directed at me, as one of them pointed directly at me.
You’re probably wondering what makes me think that this was the aforementioned loonies…well quite simply it was a group of young males in a “hotted up” vehicle exhibiting similar behaviour to what the loonies did last time, with similar language.
I have to wonder why they continue this nonsense…after all the last time they were of any concern as a “hot topic” was February, and it is now May. Are they really that far off the planet that they think yelling expletives at me will make me change my mind or give up blogging? Do they really think that the ten or so other people in the area were looking at them favourably? Perhaps they would have liked to take a closer look at the looks they were getting from the other people in the area.
I do have a message for them (although I fear the above text may be too much for their puny minds and they may miss the message as a result), next time around I will be taking a note of your registration plates, a description of your vehicle, the language that you use etc, and I will be pressing charges of harrassment (or whatever the legal term for it is). I will also (more than likely) have a number of witnesses, especially where I was at the time of yesterday’s incident…so if they would like to try it again, they have been warned.
In related loony news, I received an email yesterday afternoon from one “Sam Granleese” (his samgranleese@mac.com address didn’t bounce, so it might be legitimate) who said
Dear Samuel,
As we both share the same name, I thought it was my duty on behalf of other Sam’s and Samuel’s around the world to give you a good talking to.
Are you a mental patient? If so, please start taking your medication again. If not, please unplug your computer, take a deep breath, and call ‘000′ on your phone. Do not attempt to tune into 2CC whilst you wait for the ambulance to arrive, and if possible, please put on your spare straight-jacket which is surely still lying around the house. This would be very considerate.
Many thanks,
Sam
Was Sam having a bad day and just wanted to vent on somebody? Perhaps…I felt like venting on him after the previous loonies, but I refrained from doing that and instead sent him a polite email to which he is still yet to respond.
Sam,
You provide all these solutions, but you don’t identify what they are
there to solve. What exactly are you trying to acheive?
Samuel
In further related loony news, the Queen’s birthday long weekend is coming up, which means that local loonies get to blow things up for a while (and continue doing it when they aren’t allowed to). I’ll have another editorial on that subject in the coming weeks.
Samuel
May 26th, 2006 at 09:12am
The people at Behind Big Brother have been kind enough to remove my photo and mention that I am not a contestant, however they have also gone and called my request that they remove my copyright image a “legal threat”.
Interestingly, a threat is defined as “An expression of an intention to inflict pain, injury, evil, or punishment” by answers.com…but take a look at the email I sent to them overnight and see if you think it was threatening.
Dear Sir/Madam,
As per my most recent blog post, I am not going on Big Brother, and have no intention of ever doing so. I’m used to my name being thrown around for various reasosn, and I’m not fussed about this.
I would, however, like to point out that in your article “Rumoured Housemates” you have used a copyright image of me, from my website, without my permission. Please either remove the image or request permission to use it. You have also called me “Samuel Stewart”, I’m not terribly fussed about that, I just thought you might like to know that “Gordon-Stewart” is my proper last name.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Looks to me like I asked them to remove it or request permission to use it…I can’t see a “legal threat”…can you?
Samuel
April 21st, 2006 at 03:49pm
I don’t know where the rumor came from, but I do not have any intention of having any part in the strange television show Big Brother.
I have seen bits of it, usually the last five or ten minutes of an episode while I wait for the next show to start, sometimes this is due to a show finishing early on another channel, but usually it is due to Big Brother running beyond the advertised starting time of the next programme.
The thing that makes the notion of me being on Big Brother quite amusing, other than the fact I find the show to be quite obnoxious, is that I don’t even know how people get on the show. I gather that there is a nomination process or something like that, but how does it work? Do people ask to be on it? Or do other people nominate them to be on it?
Regardless of how it works, I am not going on it, and I have not been contacted by anybody involved with the production of it.
To those of you who have come here from the “Behind Big Brother” website, welcome. It is obvious that a number of you think Samuel’s Persiflage is boring…that’s fine, I think Big Brother is boring. I will be contacting your site administrators to have my copyrighted photo removed.
Samuel
April 21st, 2006 at 12:17am
You may recall that in the Blog View Stats for January I noted that a website called Syndicate Motor Sports were the 2nd top referrer for the month, delivering 295 page views. I also mentioned them about a week ago, when one of their readers recognised me.
During a recent check of the referring sites for this month, I noticed an unusual spike in the number of people coming here from that site, and decided to take a look and see what was bringing them here, as it turned out, they had managed to confuse themselves over the details of their reader’s encounter with me.
For one reason or another, despite everything I had written, some of them were convinced that I was talking about someone yelling out of a car window. First, take a look at what I wrote.
Today, as I went to have lunch at Coffee @ Helen’s, one of the staff recognised me.
I went on to say
upon walking into Coffee @ Helen’s, I was greeted by this person with “You’re the infamous Samuel Gordon-Stewart”.
Now, let’s have a look at what Syndicate Motor Sports member “DRAG DIS” said
Hahahahah that was me who spotted him. I was with a mate who screamed out summernats.
I think though he may have a small brain, and might be quite unintelligent.
Because:
1. I do not work at coffe @ helens. The only male that does works behind the counter (not buying food) and is Of Asian appearance, and I am of caucasian appearance. I do not know how this point can be confused.
2. He also mentioned he had not seen me working their before. Thats because i have never worked their. This guy is delirious.
2. I am unsure why he did not mention the summernats roar my friend made , and his disgusted look. He neglected to mention that.
What a tripper
I don’t know who this “DRAG DIS” is, although for someone judging the brain size of others he certainly has a lot of talent when it comes to spelling and numbering lists. There are two possibilities here, either I imagined having lunch and meeting a Syndicate Motor Sports reader, or they are referring to the wrong incident. As you probably guessed, it is the latter.
The person who recognised me was working for Coffee @ Helen’s, he was the person who served me and many other customers and, contrary to the assertions of “DRAG DIS”, Coffee @ Helen’s have more than one staff member.
I do vaguely recall the incident referred to by “DRAG DIS”, although it could be any of a number of similar incidents. I think “DRAG DIS” is referring to an incident which occured somewhere around the Civic Bus Interchange where somebody in a moving car made a loud noise, whether this was them yelling something or just making a noise I do not know. I doubt that they understand the fact that simply because they know what they are yelling does not neccessarily mean that anybody else does, especially when they are on the other side of the road in a noisy area yelling out of a moving vehicle.
In related news, as I was taking Nattie for a walk today and waiting to cross Ainslie Avenue, somebody driving a white commodore which had just taken a left turn onto Ainslie Avenue from Limestone Avenue moved into the right hand lane without indicating, put their right arm out the window and started making unusual arm shaking gestures towards me, which they ceased shortly after passing me. It is a pity that I didn’t have a video camera to record the incident and hand the tape into the police so that they could penalise the driver for not indicating when changing lane.
Samuel
February 25th, 2006 at 10:28pm
It was only a few years ago that I was a student at Campbell High School, and I clearly remember the annual tradition of excursions to the Civic Pool during P.E. classes.
These were organised in an unusual manner, which involved walking to the pool and back from the high school. There was a small level of order to this odd excursion, there were three teachers, one leading the pack, one in the middle and one at the rear attempting to speed up the dawdlers. All students had to cross at the traffic lights on Limestone Avenue outside the high school, walk down a particular side of Coranderrk St to the Constitution Avenue traffic lights, cross at the lights, walk to the pedestrian crossing next to the convention centre and cross over to the swimming pool. This was quite naturally reversed on the way back.
Today on my way into the CIT Reid Campus around 11:30am I spotted one of these drawn out excursion groups, unfortunately there seemed to be much less order to this lot than any time during my high school years. Firstly, there was no visible teacher presence, this could be explained by the general demographic of P.E. teachers being fairly young, and often fresh out of university. Generally they do look a bit older than the students and look mildly authoritative.
Unfortunately there was no such presence in this group and it showed. Road crossings were amazingly disorganised and dangerous. Coranderrk and Ballumbir Streets intersect in a Y shape, with Ballumbir merging with Coranderrk to form a new length of Coranderrk. Naturally, this is where the group decided to cross, seemingly running across the road and dodging cars. If this move was initiated by a leading teacher then I am very concerned about the example they are imparting on their young and impressionable students. Even worse still, no teacher attempted to stop this from happening.
Following this bizarre and dangerous road crossing, many students seemingly disappeared into Glebe Park and the surrounding walkways, and headed in the general direction of Civic. Admittedly a roll call at the pool would have picked up these truants, but it is still unacceptable that this could happen so easily.
It would appear that Campbell High School’s P.E. teachers have forgotten their duty of care, and need to be reminded of school policies in relation to excursions. If an accident had occurred, which it nearly did, the consequences and negative publicity would have made them wake up. None the less, prevention is better than cure, and I will be sending a copy of this article to Campbell High School as a courtesy to allow them to review policies, and take the appropriate action to help ensure the safety of their students.
I’m certain that somebody will now tell me that high school students should be capable of crossing the road safely, and I agree, they should, but peer pressure and general teenage silliness does get in the way of clear judgements from time to time, and it is the job of the supervising teachers to keep this to a minimum.
Whilst Campbell High is my old high school, I am not picking on them simply because I used to go there. In this case I am able to draw on my experiences there and make a comparison, however I would be equally critical of any school that allowed such behaviour.
Samuel
February 24th, 2006 at 03:35pm
I noticed this rather unusual entry in the search keywords list for Wednesday February 1:
smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com password
At the time I didn’t think much of it, despite the fact that someone landed on my website three times by searching for it, however upon checking my hotmail account (I check it monthly, just to see if an old contact has sent me an email for some reason…I usually just find spam) today, I found the following email from Google:
From :
Sent : Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:05:38 PM
To : smoothwallsamuel@hotmail.com
Subject : Google Password Assistance
To initiate the process for resetting the password for your
smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com Google Account, visit the link below
[Link removed by Samuel for obvious reasons]
If clicking the link above does not work, copy and paste the URL in a
new browser window instead.
Thank you for using Google.
For questions or concerns regarding your account, please visit the
Google Accounts FAQ at
http://www.google.com/help/faq_accounts.html.
This is a post-only mailing. Replies to this message are not monitored
or answered.
My hotmail account is listed as my secondary account for Gmail, as it was the address which my Gmail invitation was sent to.
So what does all this mean? Basically it means that somebody wanted to gain access to my Gmail account, they foolishly thought that my password would be on a website somewhere, and then thought they would be able to change my password by clicking links on the Gmail website.
Just so you know, the webserver logs for that period of time, as well as the email from Google accounts, will be forwarded to Google’s abuse team. Whether they do anything about it is something I don’t know, but be warned, further attempts at gaining access to my email will result in law enforcement officers being brought in.
You have been warned!
Now back to normal blog operations.
Samuel
February 7th, 2006 at 04:55pm
Sometimes I enjoy reading some of the spam I receive (On average, about one per hour). Gmail does a pretty good job of filtering it, in fact I’ve only had two spam emails slip into my inbox in the last couple months.
Anyway, this gem was filtered by Gmail today, addressed to the podcast email address (before you ask, all of my email addresses are directed to my gmail account, and placed under specific labels upon arrival).
This one comes from rfumonoraaafaaa
上海锦程航空近期机票惊喜特价.并推出累计积分活动
购买机票额达到以下数，均有相应礼品赠送。（可累计）
2000 精美太阳伞，树脂闹钟……
6000 手机充值卡（50），精美相册……
10000 手机充值卡（100），电吹风，网球拍……
15000 充值交通卡（130），等等
国内特价：
北京570 成都810 重庆750 长沙 620
福州470 贵阳960 桂林650 广州 770
海口500 济南530 晋江460 大连 530
南宁830 南昌430 青岛440 沈阳 650
汕头590 深圳700 太原840 天津 820
温州350 武汉730 武夷山660 西安 630
厦门480 烟台430 郑州560 哈尔滨880
石家庄990 珠海840 三亚950 乌鲁木齐1200
兰州900 长春1280 昆明1140 银川900
国际特价：
航程 单程/往返 航程 单程/往返
香港（东航） 1490/1920 名古屋（国航） 1880/3270
澳门（上航） 1320/2320 福冈（国航） 1550/2240
台北（上航+复兴） 1790/3260 新加坡（东航） 2190/2240
东京（美西北） 1890/2980 曼谷（东航） 1590/2250
大阪（国航） 1620/2590 吉隆坡（东航） 2080/2350
汉城（上航） 1420/2750 法兰克福（国航） 3690/4980
釜山（东航） 1290/2490 悉尼（东航） 4380/4980
巴黎（东航） 3490/4480 伦敦（英航/东航） 2680/3390
米兰（国航） 3590/4690 旧金山 (美西北) 3150/4350
洛杉机（东航/美西北） 2650/4290 温哥华 (东航) 2540/3990
华盛顿（全日空） 3680/5390 纽约 (国航/美西北) 3480/5210
巴黎（公务舱） 14880/21600 赫尔辛基 (芬航) 4200/5390
市区提供免费送票服务。
以上国内机票均为不含机场建设费，燃油附加费。
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This seemed oddly interesting, so I grabbed the Google Translator and guessed that this might be Chinese, Google gave me the following translation:
The Shanghai brocade regulation aviation in the near future the airplane ticket will be pleasantly surprised 特价. And promotes the accumulation integral activity purchase machine face value achieves below counts, all has the corresponding present bestows. (May accumulate) 2000 fine umbrellas, the resin alarm clock… 6000 handsets sufficient values card (50), fine photo album… 10000 handsets sufficient values card (100), electric drier, tennis racket… 15000 sufficient values traffics card (130), and so on domestic 特价: Beijing 570 Chengdu 810 Chongqing 750 Changsha 620 Fuzhou 470 Guiyang 960 Guilin 650 Guangzhou 770 seaports 500 Jinan 530 Jinjiang 460 Dalian 530 Nanning 830 Nanchang 430 Qingdao 440 Shenyang 650 Shantou 590 Shenzhen 700 Taiyuan 840 Tianjin 820 Wenzhou 350 Wuhan 730 Mount Wuyi 660 Xi’an 630 Amoy 480 Yantai 430 Zhengzhou 560 Harbin 880 Shijiazhuang 990 Zhuhai 8403 Asia 950 Urumqi 1200 Lanzhou 900 Changchun 1280 Kunming 1140 Yinchuan 900 international 特价: The range one-way / round-trip range one-way / goes and returns Hong Kong (东航) 1490/1920 Nagoya (country navigation) 1880/3270 Aomen (above navigation) 1320/2320 Fukuoka (country navigation) 1550/2240 Taibei (above navigation + revival) 1790/3260 Singapore (东航) 2190/2240 Tokyo (beautiful northwest) 1890/2980 Bangkok (东航) 1590/2250 Osaka (country navigation) 1620/2590 Kuala Lumpur (东航) 2080/2350 Seoul (above navigation) 1420/2750 Frankfurt (country navigation) 3690/4980 Pusan (东航) 1290/2490 Sydney (东航) 4380/4980 Paris (东航) 3490/4480 London (the English navigation / 东航) 2680/3390 Milan (country navigation) 3590/4690 San Francisco (beautiful northwest) 3150/4350 Luo river cedar machine (东航 / is beautiful Northwest) 2650/4290 Vancouver (东航) 2540/3990 Washington (entire date spatial) 3680/5390 New York (country navigation / is beautiful northwest) 3480/5210 Paris (official business cabin) 14880/21600 Helsinki (profuse navigation) 4200/5390 urban district provides free delivers the ticket service. Above the domestic airplane ticket all for does not contain the airport construction cost, the fuel oil extra charge. International all does not contain the tax money & war for only the price insures & the fuel oil extra charge & airport construction cost. In the form no either the complex travelling schedule please comes the electricity or the facsimile inquiry. When aviation airplane ticket price has the change, above price is the reference, concrete please comes the electricity inquiry. This company generation subscribes the hotel service, the welcome deigns to inquire! Telephone: 021-52242591 62248189 facsimiles: 021-62248189
This poses a question, do I really want 2000 fine umbrellas, or an electricity inquiry about concrete? I think not…
Ahhh, that was fun!
Samuel
February 7th, 2006 at 01:55pm
I can sum that up in one word…”lunatics” (for those that keep emailing me saying it’s “loonatics”, that’s a movie, not a word!).
Take 2UE’s OB at The Domain in Sydney for example. 2UE generally have enclosed studios for every OB, which is lucky as somebody could have been seriously hurt if they didn’t. I’ll let a Sydney listener, Madcat from USENET Aus.Radio.broadcast explain what happened:
I was just listeening to 2UE just after 1pm Saturday, and they are
doing their “Find Me A Home” program as an OB from The Domain in
Sydney.
Some woman started banging on the glass window telling them to “turn
it down”. They told her to stop, as she’d break the glass. She did
for a few moments.
Then she started up again…constantly and hard - BANG BANG BANG BANG.
And it really did sound like the window would shatter.
The real esate guy adn the host got all flustered, and mentioned that
they would have to get the police.
(Verbatim copy, errors were in original text).
Poor Monica Trapaga, her first day filling in for Glenn Wheeler and she gets a visit from a lunatic. If this person had wanted to have the speaker volume turned down, you would think she could have asked one of the 2UE staff, there seemed to be plenty there (including weekday afternoon presenter John Stanley). I don’t think I’ve seen a single OB that didn’t have non-presenting station staff all over the place.
Canberra only get 2pm to 6pm of Glenn’s (Monica’s) show on a Saturday, but the bits I heard did sound like Monica got a bit of a shock from that drama and needed a break. To her credit she continued with the show, and it was undoubtedly a coup for 2UE having Monica at an OB, but it did seem quite clear that she was shaken up by the whole event. I hope that 2UE have the courtesy to give her tomorrow off if she needs it.
Samuel
January 21st, 2006 at 09:30pm
It would appear that somebody is posting under my name at a site that mostly contains people who dislike me. The list of posts by the person pretending to be me can be found here.
So as to not confuse the matter by posting there myself, I will reply to a couple comments here.
Firstly, if the person who is posting as me had done any research they would have discovered that I don’t like the green Action buses, and would much rather ride an orange one. Apart from which, the bus pictured is either an Irisbus or a Scania. The older orange buses (pictured below) were the ones built by Renault and fitted out by Ansair.
As correctly stated by at least one person on that site I am 18, however another numbscull then decided that I’m not old enough to drive…WRONG!!! I just chose not to learn…I have no need at this stage, buses and bicycles are just fine thankyou very much.
Unless carefully created, songs with no bass whatsoever often sound like they are missing something…that being said, the bass doesn’t have to be overpowering. I personally prefer music from the 50’s through to the early 80’s, see my Musician(s) Of The Week Award for more details.
I think that just about covers it. I’m sure there is some law against posting under someone elses name without their permission. I will be seeking legal advice on the matter.
Samuel
January 16th, 2006 at 12:05am
One thing I have noticed over the last week or so is that the people who think that Summernats is a good idea generally belong in one or both of the following categories:
- People who don’t live in the inner north of Canberra.
- People who think the only way to have fun is through loud noises, preferably whilst intoxicated.
I’m sure they enjoy this event and it’s inherent noise, smoke and pointlessness, in fact I’m sure they enjoy it, because they carry it out of the venue at the end of each day and continue it on suburban streets. The lovely loonies who bring their high-powered vehicles into Canberra each year aren’t content with watching others perform unusual activities in an enclosed environment, no, they feel a need to keep everyone else awake for many hours afterwards.
It is the general attitude of this group of people which becomes very annoying, they tend to think that the best way to drive a car is with a flat foot, especially when on a suburban road, couple this with the loud vehicles that these people generally drive, and suddently you will understand why I was still awake at 3 o’clock this morning, despite attempts to go to sleep.
I’m sure there are some genuine car enthusiasts who can behave themselves and not feel a need to wake up northern Canberra, and I’m sure Summernats does wonders for the local economy (especially the petrol stations), but it has a rather negative impact on those who live anywhere near it.
Organiser Chic Henry was on 2CC a couple weeks back telling us all that the people who don’t like Summernats don’t like noise and generally have something wrong with them…well sorry Chic, but you’re wrong. I don’t mind noise, but I’d rather not have it outside my window at 3am, I also don’t like the undesirable element which are generally attracted to your event, the ones who manage to drag Canberra’s road safety level to record lows (no pun intended).
Whilst Chic maintains that Summernats is a fantastic and safe event, reality shows it is anything but safe. For example, last night a ute in one of the parades managed to lose control and plow into a crowd, injuring four to six people, depending on your news source. Watching the footage it is quite clear that the driver was a goose and the fencing was completely inadequate.
According to Channel Ten, Summernats organiser Chic Henry says there’s always an element of danger associated with motor sports. Chic is right about that, but there is a vast difference between most motor sports and Summernats, the fencing. Most motor sports have a proper concrete barrier or similar with proper fencing above it, Summernats has a puny little fence that could probably be pushed over by an average grown human.
Add to that the fact that it was possible for a semi-streaker to get onto the arena under the location where a crane was about to drop a car on to a caravan (proper fences would fix that) and then they missed the caravan anyway, and you really have a very unusual definition of “safe” in Chic’s dictionary.
When Chic was on 2CC as previously mentioned, he was talking about how Summernats almost didn’t survive when they had to find a new location a few years ago…wouldn’t it have been brilliant if it hadn’t survived? Absolutely fantastic in my view. According to the ABC Television News, crowd numbers were down this year, which is fantastic as it might be spelling the beginning of the end for this strange annual annoyance.
News reports indicate that Chic will review safety procedures, well I’m going to give him some free advice. The best way to make the event safer is to not have it…there! Problem solved! Alternatively, move it to the middle of nowhere…that will, at the very least, make Canberra’s roads a bit safer…and let the loonies make as much noise as they want with nobody getting annoyed…won’t stop the injuries though.
If Summernats leaves Canberra I’ll be pleased, if it disappears altogether then I’ll be over the moon, as the world will be slightly more sane!
Samuel
January 8th, 2006 at 06:47pm
Generally, Gmail does a very good job of spam filtering, but one did slip through to the inbox tonight, and it is truly the most ill concieved piece of nonsense I have ever recieved.
Firstly, allow me to quote the email which was sent to me (and probably thousands of others).
Subject: Get Back To Me!
I strongly regret any inconvenience the receipt of this letter may cause you, bearing in mind the nature of it’s content coming from a person without any referral.
I am the head of the account department of a Private Bank in the Netherlands and I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
This involves my client,Late Van Nguyen, the 25-year-old drug trafficker from Melbourne,who was hanged in Changi Prison,Singapore on the 2nd of December, 2005. He had an investment placed under my bank’s management two years ago.
With the very strong clause on his bank account form in which a next of kin/beneficiary to his funds was not stated,it has become imperative that I present a next of kin/beneficiary to his time deposit being his account officer.
The need for an assistance becomes crucial, as a next of kin to the depositor is earnestly sought for.
I have a foolproof,legal and totally risk free means through which the fund can be released to you within a very short time after due documentation and authentication process.
The strategy is to use my position and influence as the Head of the branch and Personal Account office of the deceased to present you as a next of Kin and beneficiary to the Late Van Nguyen.
I want to assure you that I have concluded all local modalities for the successful completion of this within 10 banking days.
You should contact me on:
Tel: +31 647 146 661
email: russell8davies@netscape.net
I expect your urgent response and if in the affirmative, I shall advice you on what we need to do.
Best regards,
Russell Davies.
Normally I would not reply to spam, but on this occasion, I just had to, here is what I sent.
You my friend, are quite clearly an idiot. If you had paid ANY attention to the weeks of media attention that Van Nguyen got, you would know that he has a mother who is still alive. I get plenty of your type of scam in my email (although yours is the first to find my inbox and not the spam folder for a while), and of the few I read, yours has to be the worst thought out scam yet. Anybody who paid any attention to the Van Nguyen media coverage (it was pretty much inescapable) would know that his next of kin are alive.
Why don’t you, and the rest of your scam writing friends, go an hit yourselves over the head with large rocks.
Thankyou, and good day,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Samuel
December 12th, 2005 at 10:38pm
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