So my mother received the oddest email today - an assassination threat. I saw it, it's very poorly typed and basically has the person claiming to be the "assassinator" saying his client didn't say why to do it but to respond to some email at aol.com within 48 hours or some such nonsense. It said trying to contact the police would result in being assassinated due to not wanting the info to get out. It was funny how it also said she'd be assassinated "when convenient" or something. The original email is from some .ca thing - I'm not sure what country that is.
What's funny is also that the email had under the To: section. Is this not the weirdest thing? Has anyone else had any other really weird spam emails like this? My mother doesn't work for anyone special or in a position of any real importance to anything so it's not like she's an FBI agent or something. I told her to forward it to the police anyway, but I did think it was funny. What kind of moron assassin would tell the person they were hired to kill "Hey, I'm gonna kill you - but don't tell anyone!". Can you imagine if Agent 47 in the Hitman series sent the people emails before killing them? Or how about a text message? Just strikes me as really idiotic and unbelievable.
I'm trying to theorize in my head what benefit a spammer would gain from getting a reply email - can they do something much worse once they have a response from your email? What really is the point of an email like that? I was expecting it to say "But for the fee of XXX dollars I will not terminate your life, please write back to wire me the funds" or something but it didn't. All I have to say if it's a real threat...I have a 7.62mm X 54r solution to any moron stupid enough to try anything...But again, the legitimacy of the email seems unlikely. A hired killer I would imagine is at least not that stupid to tell the person they're going to kill them. He also claimed to have ways to watch us in our house...except where we live there is no way for anyone to do so, it's a suburban neighborhood with no cars allowed on the street and homes directly behind us. So unless this is some ridiculous story plot that could be in a movie or a book where the assassin was a planted neighbor who just moved in or something it's next to impossible.
Hmmm, perhaps that is a decent story element. Thanks for the story idea Mr. Idiot-Spam-Assassinator. Methinks someone played too much Assassin's Creed...
What's funny is also that the email had under the To: section. Is this not the weirdest thing? Has anyone else had any other really weird spam emails like this? My mother doesn't work for anyone special or in a position of any real importance to anything so it's not like she's an FBI agent or something. I told her to forward it to the police anyway, but I did think it was funny. What kind of moron assassin would tell the person they were hired to kill "Hey, I'm gonna kill you - but don't tell anyone!". Can you imagine if Agent 47 in the Hitman series sent the people emails before killing them? Or how about a text message? Just strikes me as really idiotic and unbelievable.
I'm trying to theorize in my head what benefit a spammer would gain from getting a reply email - can they do something much worse once they have a response from your email? What really is the point of an email like that? I was expecting it to say "But for the fee of XXX dollars I will not terminate your life, please write back to wire me the funds" or something but it didn't. All I have to say if it's a real threat...I have a 7.62mm X 54r solution to any moron stupid enough to try anything...But again, the legitimacy of the email seems unlikely. A hired killer I would imagine is at least not that stupid to tell the person they're going to kill them. He also claimed to have ways to watch us in our house...except where we live there is no way for anyone to do so, it's a suburban neighborhood with no cars allowed on the street and homes directly behind us. So unless this is some ridiculous story plot that could be in a movie or a book where the assassin was a planted neighbor who just moved in or something it's next to impossible.
Hmmm, perhaps that is a decent story element. Thanks for the story idea Mr. Idiot-Spam-Assassinator. Methinks someone played too much Assassin's Creed...
