Bizarre e-mail in the orphan mailbox

This is, like, bizarre. Why do they send this stuff in cleartext, and why does it come to my orphan mailbox? We have no "tcheung" here. ]Received: (from www@localhost) by hotbox.danni.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA21869 for tcheung@dm.com; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) ]Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) ]Message-Id: <199707131953.MAA21869@hotbox.danni.com> ]To: tcheung@dm.com ]From: Kris <kris@danni.com> ]Subject: Hotbox ]Errors-To: kris@danni.com ] ]Your HotBOX passwords have been activated! ] ]New Members: ]A charge will appear on your credit card statement (if that is how you ]paid) as "V.B.P. call for info (310) 258-0930." The cost of HotBOX is ]$9.95 per month, automatically charged to your credit card. We ]also offer trial memberships of one week at $2.99. ] ]All accounts will automatically renew at the end of the billing period ]at a rate of $9.95 per month in order to assure you uninterrupted service. ] ]You can now access the HotBOX at: http://hotbox.danni.com/hotbox ]If you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to contact us: ]Hotbox@danni.com. ] ]Make sure you read the FAQ first before contacting us: ]http://hotbox.danni.com/faq.html ] ]*To cancel your account*, and stop all future billing: go to the following ]address and enter your name and your access codes. ]http://hotbox.danni.com/cancel.html ] ] ]Current HotBOX Members: ]If you have recently contacted us about being unable to access the HotBOX ]With your codes, this is a message to notify you that your codes have been ]reactivated. This does not mean that you are being billed again, unless you ]have allowed your membership to lapse and are now restarting it. Please call ]our office if you are unfamiliar with the details of your account. ] ]Danni's Hard Drive can be contacted at: ](310) 258-0930 from 9am to 6pm, every day, Pacific time. ]Our toll free number is (888) 878-7252 ]Hotbox@danni.com for HotBOX problems ]madison@danni.com for merchandise problems ]danni@danni.com for fan mail and suggestions ] ]If you send us any e-mail regarding your account, *please* send us your ]Full name, username and password -- it will help us rectify any problems much ]more quickly. ] ]Enter your username & password in the *exact same* upper/lower case ]patterns shown here: ] ]username: antonio ]password: 9183tc ] ]Please note: your username might have been modified if another member ]had already selected it. ]Have Fun! ]Jannine and kris, ]HotBOX Administration ]kris@danni.com ]http://www.danni.com ]http://hotbox.danni.com ] What is this stuff: http://hotbox.danni.com username: antonio password: 9183tc Why are they spamming me with their passwords?

The Good Doctor writes:
What is this stuff: http://hotbox.danni.com username: antonio password: 9183tc
Why are they spamming me with their passwords?
Apparently, they think you will give them a credit card number they can bill $9.95 a month to in perpetuity, just for the privelege of being able to click on some jpg files of chunky women with big hooters. Go figure. I've never understood phone sex either. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch@zipcon.com $ via Finger $

Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net> writes:
The Good Doctor writes:
What is this stuff: http://hotbox.danni.com username: antonio password: 9183tc
Why are they spamming me with their passwords?
Apparently, they think you will give them a credit card number they can bill $9.95 a month to in perpetuity, just for the privelege of being able to click on some jpg files of chunky women with big hooters.
Go figure.
But lots of these used to be available for free on alt.binaries.pictures. erotica the last time I looked (which was admittedly many years ago). Conspiracy theory: do you think the spammers are flooding the "free" sources of good stuff (such as usenet) to eliminate the competition, so people would have to pay them for same? --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Conspiracy theory: do you think the spammers are flooding the "free" sources of good stuff (such as usenet) to eliminate the competition, so people would have to pay them for same?
Porn4porn infact confess that thats what thay are doing. Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. Buy easter bilbies. Save the ABC Is $0.08 per day too much to pay? ex-net.scum and prouud I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument

? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Conspiracy theory: do you think the spammers are flooding the "free" sources of good stuff (such as usenet) to eliminate the competition, so people would have to pay them for same?
Porn4porn infact confess that thats what thay are doing.
I am not surprised. I wish there were a technical solution to make Usenet immune to such sabotage wihout abridging free speech. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
Porn4porn infact confess that thats [...Spamming to destroy free porn...] what thay are doing.
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I wish there were a technical solution to make Usenet immune to such sabotage wihout abridging free speech.
(? the Platypus looks up from the reams of perl code he is writing) Dimitri what do you think NoCeMs are then? Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. Buy easter bilbies. Save the ABC Is $0.08 per day too much to pay? ex-net.scum and prouud I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument

? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
Porn4porn infact confess that thats [...Spamming to destroy free porn...] what thay are doing.
I wish there were a technical solution to make Usenet immune to such sabotage wihout abridging free speech.
(? the Platypus looks up from the reams of perl code he is writing)
Dimitri what do you think NoCeMs are then?
Sigh. I've experimented with "hide" NoCeMs for traffic that in my opinion was off-topic in certain badly infested newsgroups, and wasn't quite happy. If the saboteur posts 10,000 junk articles that must be distributed before the NoCeMs are issued and applied, then he has succeeded in causing damages. "Hide" NoCeMs work fine against plan old "spam" (multi- posting a few articles), but not against deliberate flooding with tens of thousands of articles. A better idea might be "select" NoCeMs first suggested by the CancelMoose, but not implemented in any reader I know. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}
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Mike Duvos