I thought this was interesting.

I normally get a lot of Spam. Usually 20 to 50 pieces a day in fact. I'm really good at deleting it though. A half-second glance, and it's gone. I used to spend the first half hour of my day sending each one to SpamCop, but that just got too tiresome.

This piece of Spam, however, caught my eye. Take a look:

From: Mike Doe <sales@opt.com>
Subject: Time Tavelers PLEASE HELP!

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Mike Doe (sales@opt.com) on Thursday, December 6, 2001 at 19:20:20

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message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!

My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!

I need to be able to:

Travel back in time.

Rewind my life including my age.

Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.

I am in very great danger and need this immediately!

I am aware that there are many types of time travel and that humans do not do well through certain types.

I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist.

I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.

If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment.
Proof must be provided.

Only if you have this technology and can help me please send me a (SEPARATE) email to:

Robby0809@aol.com
Thanks

Bizarre, huh? This is the second time I've received this one too, so obviously he didn't find his 'Time Tavelers' so far.

I can't quite figure what the angle is. Is this simply an attempt to garner the email addresses of those gullible enough to respond? Obviously he already has access to a mailing list, or this wouldn't have gone out in the first place.

He isn't offering any money, the standard traps aren't apparent. I just don't get it.

Unless he is a kook. Kooks are usually too off-center to figure out how to Spam people, at least those of this caliber.

Another odd thing is the 'feedback form' line. Is there a auto-Spam form out there somewhere?

I'm tempted to respond, but a dialog with either a clever Spammer or a real nutjob isn't what I have in mind at all.

Weird.

Mom Rating: 3 out of 5. Mom's not really into weirdness.

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