[Gllug] Nicerealmail.info - WTF?

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:04:38PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> I'm getting a steady stream of e-mails like this:
> 
> Helalo my dear friend
> I was looking through the web few weaeks ago and found 
> your profile. Now I decided to email you to gbet to know
> you better. I am cominga to your country in few weeks
> and thougbht may be we can meet eaach other. I am pretty
> looking girl. I am 25. Do not areply to this address 
> directly. Email me back at loqms at nicerealmail.info
> 
> They vary in the actual text but they all put an e-mail address at
> "nicerealmail.info" to e-mail back to.  The actual names vary, but the
> domain is always the same.
> 
> A quick web search indicates that there are an awful lot of these
> messages about, but it's difficult to see what the point is.  Pointing a
> web browser at www.nicerealmail.info gives a blank page, and the virus
> search engines don't throw up anything.
> 
> Anyone any idea what's going on?  Is it a virus propagating itself?  If
> not, what's the point?

Mail address harvesting ?

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