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Old 03-14-2010
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Got a strange email today
From a guy I don't know with an AOL account. The subject was "Regarding your boat," and the message was "What do you want for your boat?"

This is the strangest spam I've ever gotten. It came to my yahoo mail account. What on Earth would prompt a person to send out such a useless spam? It didn't even have a link where a stupid person could click and give themselves a virus.

And if anyone is wondering: no, my boat is not up for sale.
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Sold !
Anything is for sale if the price is right and the cash looks real !!
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Maybe Santa Claus has a new way of getting gift ideas...
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Send a message via AIM to chef2sail
Is your wife/ significant other trying to send you a message?
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You're far braver than I! I never open strange emails!
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Ahh gee not for sale eh? Thats too bad because I was going to pay over market value, I could send you a bankers check to cover it. The check might be a little over the agreed value but you can just send me back the difference via money order.....but if you are not interested in making much profit quickly.....
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I'd be tempted to reply "a couple of 12 pounder cannons would be wonderful." and see if it gets me anything.
Seriously, I'm getting a lot of swell spam from chinese accounts, to the point that I'm almost starting to wish them an earthquake (sorry, that's not nice, but I'm getting over-spammed to the tune of 20+ per day).
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Maybe a Nigerian Prince is interested in your boat?
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I'd be tempted to reply "a couple of 12 pounder cannons would be wonderful." and see if it gets me anything.
Seriously, I'm getting a lot of swell spam from chinese accounts, to the point that I'm almost starting to wish them an earthquake (sorry, that's not nice, but I'm getting over-spammed to the tune of 20+ per day).
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You should've said "Some new winch handles, maybe a mainsail cover. Do you have those?"
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