Could there be some spammers among us?

[Hipoccolos]

Just today, I got an E-mail from [email protected] saying s/he had sent me an E-mail through the link in my profile. Here's what sneaky had to say.

hey,
u seem quite knowlegable when it comes 2 psx emulation. i was wondering if u
knew if there is any working ps2 emulators, if there isnt, when do u think one
will be released. thankyou.

There are four reasons I consider this could be a spam attempt.

1. Every time anyone has ever contacted me, it's been through PM's, never E-mail.

2. Where does s/he come up with ME being knowledgeable about PSX emulation? I barely know jack about it, which makes me think s/he's trying to get me to reply via E-mail to answer his/her question. Also, s/he could've just asked this on the Emulation board or searched for topics on it.

3. S/he hasn't posted at all, and his/her total online time was just over 8 minutes. I find it oddly suspicious that s/he could find out how "knowledgeable" I am about PSX emulation in such short time.

4. S/he can't spell good at all. I know this is kind of invalid, but if you've gotten spam mail before, you'd know that spammers spell like this person then.

I just find this really weird that I got such a request from a person. Has anyone else receieved E-mail notifications that seemed shady like this?

[Paul Miller]

What was the subject? If I don't recognize the subject in about a tenth of a second (as long as it takes to check all the boxes of new emails which I assume are all spam), it's toast. So I may have, but they've been deleted already.

[Hipoccolos]

The subject was "psx emu".

[gamefreak777]

lol yea I know how they talk in that stupid spam. Its so obvious its spam. I can't believe they think it would fool anyone into believeing it was from a real person. I haven't gotten any about emulation though. Just got them mostly about one acting like a girl that likes me.

[Jase]

Hm i had a guy add me to there MSN askin the same question i didnt tell them anything i didnt trust them thats why i removed my email's and people have to PM to get it now

[Strongbad]

Witch Hunt!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cyruz]

Originally posted by LUEser
4. S/he can't spell good at all.

Spell well, spell good is incorrect english

[Dark Sabator]

oo, that was a burn, man. you just got burned! burrrrrrrrrrn, dude.

[Hipoccolos]

Originally posted by Cyruz
Spell well, spell good is incorrect english

Next, he'll probably say my user title is incorrect and should say "Why hello there, buttsex?" Go jack off to your little cartoons, loser.

oo, that was a burn, man. you just got burned! burrrrrrrrrrn, dude.

Please kill yourself, or at least get a vasectomy.

[Ragnar]

Smilies count as punctuation in the net Not that I care about grammar...
As for the spam. Sorry, that was me.




















Actually, it wasn't. I lied...

[Mason]

1. The email likely wasn't spam. I mean, it was an emulation question that you got from a user on an emulation site. It's not like you got your inbox flooded with random junk. If you don't want to respond, don't. Just delete it. Easy enough. :)

2. Chill out. Cyruz and sabator were just joking, you don't need to bite their heads off.

[G-String MIX]

I don't understand. Why someone would just waist their time typing up an e-mail to spam you?
I understand why it would be worth spamming here because you get gill and post counts. But why E-Mail.