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H.B. Elkins

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Sep 23, 2008, 10:43:19 PM9/23/08
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I got this e-mail the other day and wondered if anyone else who maintains a web
page got the same...

Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page
<http://www.millenniumhwy.net/>http://www.millenniumhwy.net/ which has great
info about exit signs and it would be perfect for a text link to my client, a
reputable exit signs manufacturer.

What I am looking for is a small text link (exit signs) and if you keep it for
at least a year, I will pay you $100 by check or pay pal. Which would you
prefer?

Jeff Watson
Marketing Manager
Fortitude Hosting
www.fortitudehosting.com


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Jon Morse

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Sep 23, 2008, 10:56:18 PM9/23/08
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Looking at his own web page, I suspect it's a crock of shit. They offer
three hosting plans, the ONLY difference between which is the number of
FTP accounts allowed, rather than increased bandwidth or and/or disk
space? Really? FTP ACCOUNTS? Plus, the "more" buttons all go to 404.

That right there sets off alarm bells; if they're legit, they're
incompetent, and probably won't be around in a year to pay you anyway.

--
Jon Morse
Herndon, VA -- err, Grapevine, TX effective 10/5

Steve A.

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Sep 23, 2008, 11:02:42 PM9/23/08
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On Sep 23, 10:43 pm, H.B. Elkins <hbelk...@mis.net.restrictorplate>
wrote:

> I got this e-mail the other day and wondered if anyone else who maintains a web
> page got the same...
>
> Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page
> <http://www.millenniumhwy.net/>http://www.millenniumhwy.net/which has great

> info about exit signs and it would be perfect for a text link to my client, a
> reputable exit signs manufacturer.
>
> What I am looking for is a small text link (exit signs) and if you keep it for
> at least a year, I will pay you $100 by check or pay pal. Which would you
> prefer?
>
> Jeff Watson
> Marketing Manager
> Fortitude Hostingwww.fortitudehosting.com
>
> --
> To reply by e-mail, remove the "restrictor plate"

Damn, I wish. For $100 I sure would do it. Pass him along :P

Otto Yamamoto

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Sep 23, 2008, 11:13:15 PM9/23/08
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"Web Hosting for now and the next 1000 years'?
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Otto Yamamoto

jasoni...@gmail.com

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Sep 24, 2008, 12:14:24 AM9/24/08
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On Sep 23, 7:43 pm, H.B. Elkins <hbelk...@mis.net.restrictorplate>
wrote:

> I got this e-mail the other day and wondered if anyone else who maintains a web
> page got the same...
>
> Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page
> <http://www.millenniumhwy.net/>http://www.millenniumhwy.net/which has great

> info about exit signs and it would be perfect for a text link to my client, a
> reputable exit signs manufacturer.
>
> What I am looking for is a small text link (exit signs) and if you keep it for
> at least a year, I will pay you $100 by check or pay pal. Which would you
> prefer?
>
> Jeff Watson
> Marketing Manager
> Fortitude Hostingwww.fortitudehosting.com
>
> --
> To reply by e-mail, remove the "restrictor plate"

No but I got this email in my box this morning. I hear all of these
things are scams anyway so it's probably a bad deal:

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship
with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country
has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of
800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it
would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation
movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the
funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds
in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under
surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a
reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund
account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbail...@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond
with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to
protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

necromancer en mickey mouse land

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Sep 24, 2008, 5:37:18 AM9/24/08
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:13:15 -0400, Otto Yamamoto
<mryam...@optonline.net> wrote:

>"Web Hosting for now and the next 1000 years'?

Really. I looked at their pricing and the, "advanced," plan only comes
with 750MB of space. My hosting comes with 600GB of space. Their
unlimited bandwidth is nice, but I come nowhere near using the 6TB
that my host provides for the same price.

--
"This item demonstrates how stupid the average American is. Every
ninety minutes someone in this country is hit by a train. A train,
okay? Trains are on tracks; they can't come and get you. They
can't surprise you when you step off a curb. You have to go to them.
Got that?"
--George Carlin

Larry Harvilla

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Sep 24, 2008, 7:42:13 AM9/24/08
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H.B. Elkins wrote:
> I got this e-mail the other day and wondered if anyone else who maintains a web
> page got the same...
>
> Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page
> <http://www.millenniumhwy.net/>http://www.millenniumhwy.net/ which has great
> info about exit signs and it would be perfect for a text link to my client, a
> reputable exit signs manufacturer.
>
> What I am looking for is a small text link (exit signs) and if you keep it for
> at least a year, I will pay you $100 by check or pay pal. Which would you
> prefer?

I get those all the time on my site, H.B., and I have yet to see one of
them that isn't some kind of scam. My advice is ignore it.

--
Larry Harvilla
e-mail: larry AT phatpage DOT org
blog-aliciousness: http://www.phatpage.org/news/

Highways section still in progress at http://www.phatpage.org/highways.html

Jon Morse

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Sep 24, 2008, 8:25:29 AM9/24/08
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necromancer en mickey mouse land wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:13:15 -0400, Otto Yamamoto
> <mryam...@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>> "Web Hosting for now and the next 1000 years'?
>
> Really. I looked at their pricing and the, "advanced," plan only comes
> with 750MB of space. My hosting comes with 600GB of space. Their
> unlimited bandwidth is nice, but I come nowhere near using the 6TB
> that my host provides for the same price.
>
I dunno what you were looking at; when I checked them, it was 10GB
bandwidth and 350MB of space.

Rich Piehl

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Sep 24, 2008, 8:35:21 AM9/24/08
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Larry Harvilla wrote:
> H.B. Elkins wrote:
>> I got this e-mail the other day and wondered if anyone else who
>> maintains a web
>> page got the same...
>>
>> Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page
>> <http://www.millenniumhwy.net/>http://www.millenniumhwy.net/ which has
>> great
>> info about exit signs and it would be perfect for a text link to my
>> client, a
>> reputable exit signs manufacturer.
>>
>> What I am looking for is a small text link (exit signs) and if you
>> keep it for
>> at least a year, I will pay you $100 by check or pay pal. Which would you
>> prefer?
>
>
>
> I get those all the time on my site, H.B., and I have yet to see one of
> them that isn't some kind of scam. My advice is ignore it.
>

Seconded. I've gotten them, too, and I haven't done anything to my page
in 3 years.

Take care,
Rich

God bless the USA

--
Pat Paulsen (1927-1997) for President - 2008

Even though he's dead it makes about much sense
to vote for him as it does for the choices
that we have who are living. At least he's not
going change his position on anything.

H.B. Elkins

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Sep 24, 2008, 9:08:38 AM9/24/08
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:42:13 -0400, Larry Harvilla wrote:

>I get those all the time on my site, H.B., and I have yet to see one of
>them that isn't some kind of scam. My advice is ignore it.

I really didn't plan to respond, but I wondered if any other roadgeek webmasters
had received this or if I'd been singled out.

necromancer

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Sep 24, 2008, 1:44:36 PM9/24/08
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:25:29 GMT, Jon Morse <j%n@j%nfm%rse.c%m> wrote:

>
>I dunno what you were looking at; when I checked them, it was 10GB
>bandwidth and 350MB of space.

http://www.fortitudehosting.com/hosting.html

"I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them."
- David Berkowitz

Lucky

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Sep 24, 2008, 1:49:48 PM9/24/08
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Otto Yamamoto wrote:

> "Web Hosting for now and the next 1000 years'?


It might be owned by John McCain.

Jon Morse

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Sep 24, 2008, 2:08:58 PM9/24/08
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necromancer wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:25:29 GMT, Jon Morse <j%n@j%nfm%rse.c%m> wrote:
>
>> I dunno what you were looking at; when I checked them, it was 10GB
>> bandwidth and 350MB of space.
>
> http://www.fortitudehosting.com/hosting.html

Did you read the paragraph on top of that chart?

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