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Incredibly odd email spam(?) from myself...in Japan?!

Kyronea
06-06-2006, 21:45
What the hell?

So, I was looking at my Gmail, and I see one new e-mail, from myself. The subject reads "557" and the body is simply four more numbers: "5556." That's all there was to it. Incredibly confused as to how I could have sent myself an e-mail--with seemingly random numbers--I took a look at the original thing, and this came up:

X-Gmail-Received: de9edccedeeed96f9082284445cfb80b4a3f52b9
Delivered-To: picardmpc@gmail.com
Received: by 10.54.72.4 with SMTP id u4cs11422wra;
Tue, 6 Jun 2006 03:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.49.56.20 with SMTP id i20mr5198064nfk;
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <picardmpc@gmail.com>
Received: from computer.net (p1183-adsao01motoma-acca.fukuoka.ocn.ne.jp [220.105.234.183])
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id l21si6339599nfc.2006.06.06.03.23.42;
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 220.105.234.183 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of picardmpc@gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:31:59 +0900
To: "Picardmpc" <picardmpc@gmail.com>
From: "Picardmpc" <picardmpc@gmail.com>
Subject: 557
Message-ID: <abfpwjawvsabfqaywjp@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html><body>
5556

<br>
</body></html>

I don't understand what this could be. Anyone ever heard of email spam with random numbers somehow from yourself?

(Or maybe it's me in the future giving myself numbers for something...but what the FUCK are the odds of that? Certainly below 1x10^-51, at least.)
[NS]Simonist
06-06-2006, 22:11
I say get in on the lotto, 'cause clearly you're sending yourself some sort of signal here. And also, don't go to Japan, EVER, lest you once again contact your past self and once more screw the entire timeline. Unless, you're actually SUPPOSED to go to Japan, with the express purpose of contacting yourself.....or maybe your past self was actually the one who inadvertently contacted your future self.

Gwaaar, I understand why Captain America hates time travel so much.
Sane Outcasts
06-06-2006, 22:16
Check through some of the buried threads, Demented Hamsters created a thread about the same problem this morning. In both cases g-mail accounts sent random numbers to themselves, and I think it might have been the same numbers. Maybe g-mail is having a bug of some kind?
Kyronea
06-06-2006, 22:18
Check through some of the buried threads, Demented Hamsters created a thread about the same problem this morning. In both cases g-mail accounts sent random numbers to themselves, and I think it might have been the same numbers. Maybe g-mail is having a bug of some kind?
Oh, I see. Makes a damned sight more sense than me managing time travel, anyway.
Cheese penguins
06-06-2006, 22:20
Oh, I see. Makes a damned sight more sense than me managing time travel, anyway.
It could be Gmail testing account activity, i read somewhere they do that. Also maybe just a simple test of error message sending.
Quaon
06-06-2006, 22:21
I got the exact same email from myself yesterday! I thought I'd been hacked! There's something sorta like a proxy...I don't know how to desribe it, but, basically, it makes your computer think that your sending yourself spam.

Edit: Oh yeah, this is not gmail exclusive.
Khadgar
06-06-2006, 22:22
Hamsters had the exact same message. 5556.

I also have Gmail but haven't gotten any message like that. Though I haven't checked my secondary account.


My secondary account has an email from myself that says simply "969".
[NS]Simonist
06-06-2006, 22:26
Hamsters had the exact same message. 5556.

I also have Gmail but haven't gotten any message like that. Though I haven't checked my secondary account.


My secondary account has an email from myself that says simply "969".
I only have 1 Gmail account and haven't gotten anything of the sort from myself, not even in the Spam folder.

But it's probably better, because if I do, that's valid grounds for me to commit myself entirely to my basement lab (yet to be built), working on the perfect time machine device.
Rubiconic Crossings
06-06-2006, 22:26
port 5556 is the ftp port used by W32/Netsky.v@MM but it does not use that email as a payload...
Khadgar
06-06-2006, 22:27
Strange thing is my primary account there never has any spam. Secondary had 142 spam messages today.

Fun fun, that's why it's my secondary.
The Blaatschapen
06-06-2006, 22:35
Check through some of the buried threads, Demented Hamsters created a thread about the same problem this morning. In both cases g-mail accounts sent random numbers to themselves, and I think it might have been the same numbers. Maybe g-mail is having a bug of some kind?

Not only Gmail gets this. I also get the mails on a non-gmail account :(
The Aeson
06-06-2006, 23:15
It's the aliens! They're hacking our e mail and sending us random numbers. When you hook all of the numbers together and crack the alpha-numeric code, it reveals that... Gasp!

See below if you think you can handle the truth.

I have toes.
The Blaatschapen
06-06-2006, 23:38
So what? The question is, do they smell? :D
Hydesland
06-06-2006, 23:39
What the hell?

So, I was looking at my Gmail, and I see one new e-mail, from myself. The subject reads "557" and the body is simply four more numbers: "5556." That's all there was to it. Incredibly confused as to how I could have sent myself an e-mail--with seemingly random numbers--I took a look at the original thing, and this came up:



I don't understand what this could be. Anyone ever heard of email spam with random numbers somehow from yourself?

(Or maybe it's me in the future giving myself numbers for something...but what the FUCK are the odds of that? Certainly below 1x10^-51, at least.)

I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW STUPID YOU ARE: if you power to a negative number,it becomese a decimal not a high number. It should be 1x10^51:D