Re: is this also a virus or spam?

[John Williams <williams@morinda.com>]

I got the same mail, but I deleted it as SPAM because it was obviously a
form letter.   If someone I knew had really invited me, they would have
included a note or at least their name.

~ John Williams


On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Douglas Zander wrote:

> Hello, I received an email today inviting me to join a yahoo discussion
> group known as "dicegames".  I did not ask to join and I could not find
> anyones name in the email, I did not know who invited me.  What I did
> was delete the email and then I sent a subscribe request to yahoogroups.com
> to subscribe to the group.  As I suspected, the group does not exist.
> I am not sure why someone would invite me to a mailing list that does
> not exist, but I suspect there is something fishy going on.  Just to
> let everyone know, since many of you are dice game players and might
> think this is something you would want to read.  It is a trap of some kind.
> I forgot to mention that the email looked authentic and said that if
> I wanted to join then I should simply reply to the email itself.
> I believe this trap might be targeted to us who are game and dice players.
> (backgammon, etc...)
>
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