A very odd e-mail I received


The body of the e-mail (from neupod.com) says:

This May Be a Long Write up, But read each word carefully if you want Free Money From Uncle Sam!

That’s Right, Every Year Uncle Sam Gives Away Free Money To People Like You & Me- So, Go For It!

This US Government sponsored program has already given away Billions of Dollars to people just like you and me and average Hundreds of Million’s each and every month to people like you and me

The trick to getting this money is having a reason and a good one for whatever amount of money that you are looking for!

This Sponsored Offer Is Guaranteed By Our Sponsor For You To Get Free Money From Uncle Sam as long as you complete the application properly, and this is why our Sponsors will help you do it so you can get your Money Guaranteed!

On top of one-time grants being offered right now, you may even be able to qualify to receive this money over and over again.

These grants are in place specifically for people who need assistance paying for bills, buying a home, starting their own business, going to school, or even helping raise their children.

So what are you waiting for? Are you going to go to Church or Temple and pray to the good lord and hope that you win this weeks Power Ball? Here’s a hint: G-d cannot help you our sponsor can- so what do you have to lose? Give these guys a shot and you will see G-d’s answer!

Use your common sense, you have nothing to lose only to gain by pressing below for Free!

Press here if You Want Guaranteed Free Money From Uncle Sam!

Clicking the link opens another window where you read:

Financial Programs Expanded for Those Who Qualify

At the bottom is another link – Financial Aid Packages are available!  Clicking that opens an information box telling you:

Government Financial Aid is available for qualified applicants attending participating schools. The Federal Student Aid program helps millions of students with over $100 billion a year in grants, loans and work study assistance and blah, blah, blah and they direct you to find more information on this by going to www.ed.gov… the government website.

I just find this whole thing strange, particularly after the announcement from our socialist president that (not only does he have his sights set on taking over our health care system) he intends to nationalize Student Loan programs and make us pay the bill for them… sooner if they forego a profitable career with the degree they earn and dedicate their life instead to community service.

“Let’s tell another 1 million students that when they graduate, they will be required to pay only 10 percent of their income on student loans, and all of their debt will be forgiven after 20 years — and forgiven after 10 years if they choose a career in public service,” Obama said.

Is this the beginning efforts of Obama’s troops to flood the system with applications, preparing a list of “qualified applicants” to be first in line when higher education is controlled by him and his progressive minions as they want to take charge of our health care? The timing and objectives of this e-mail seem awfully suspicious to me.

I even find odd the e-mail writer’s intentional effort not to capitalize the word ”Lord” and not to spell “God” in full but rather to use “G-d” and to insist that it is their sponsor and not “G-d” who can help you.

Then I noticed something else, written in very small type at the top of the e-mail. It reads:

You are receiving this email message because you opted to at one of our affiliate’s website. If you no longer wish to receive these messages from us, then Please DO NOT claim that we Spammed You! To remove from further emails please press the link below. If you do want to claim that we spammed you, your Email Provider will report back to us your claim, and this is not a good thing for all.

First, I never “opted” to receive this or anything else from their “affiliate’s” website. And second, Is this meant as some sort of threat?

Obama has also proposed a $1.35 billion expansion of the $3 Billion dollar Race to the Top competitive grant program, which is supposed to reward states that make the most progress in raising academic standards, boosting teacher quality, tracking student gains and improving failing schools.

“Instead of rewarding failure, we only reward success,” Obama said. “Instead of funding the status quo, we only invest in reform — reform that raises student achievement, inspires students to excel in math and science, and turns around failing schools that steal the future of too many young Americans.”   

So, if the plan of reform is to “reward success” instead of promoting failure and the status quo and “turns around failing schools that steal the future of too many young Americans” …  then why did the United Federation of Teachers join up with the NAACP to file a lawsuit to prevent the closing of 19 low performing schools in New York?



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All E-Mail Messages Can Be Traced

Ausonius (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 6:37PM EST (link)

There are various websites showing how, assuming that nefarious forces are not originating things through a computer in an empty office in Armenia:

See e.g.

http://www.johnru.com/active-whois/trace-email.html

If you have a Macintosh, you can hit the “Show Long Headers” button for all the routing.

It would be interesting to see if the NEA is involved, especially with all those misspelled words! :)

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

 

Thanks much... found something interesting

Patricia_C (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 7:33PM EST (link)

The e-mail originates from:

mta1023.mail.mud.yahoo.com

A quick Google of that address took me to a site called ScamWarners/ Internet Fraud Center.

Here is what the Full Header revealed as a whole. I am not familiar enough to do any proper sloothing so, maybe someone else can give it a go?

From Free Money Tue Feb 9 06:58:49 2010
X-Apparently-To: pc_in_tampa@yahoo.com via 68.142.200.157; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:04:37 -0800
Return-Path:
X-YMailISG: 2pEhhBMWLDvV7UXsc1WUp3VVSKI3.8PY5A706Bxk5weljFqvqTgYx5Qpew7tHO8GTvCb1PDlbDeHoALnYcqT1bjPk7G8syJhkt7n6el6WCWq3NIMxiYaB.SYL9zkrGtjiH_MtiO.wiJeXPdtegDo_XkD4DLkPlWCgn9ZcxHjJ_xvoHbtA4SvrgPFbMAnOBIAFGswacn_bZIpIs6cRnbQqZKudUNGqSokY1TqOUScZHJoG8qIfRztTRGgxDRqI5m9cxz2_6N_bvzpSmw.PdPe7lmmAAfduoAwM_jqX.uk8zUYnnpK5kKLShTsTU0mK905zvZhz3S1jvFiPfrYjlZQj.ZZAKIrdTIJ_wo-
X-Originating-IP: [66.150.10.138]
Authentication-Results: mta1023.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=nuepod.com; domainkeys=pass (ok)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO mx-10.nuepod.com) (66.150.10.138)
by mta1023.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:04:36 -0800
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=default; d=nuepod.com;
h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:list-unsubscribe; i=support@nuepod.com;
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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:58:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Free Money
Reply-To:
To: “pc_in_tampa@yahoo.com”
Subject: Pres Obama is giving away from $1000′s to $10,000′s -Get yours
before it’s gone! See how
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“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

 

What's yer problem with F R E E Money? nt

RoguePolitics (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 8:24PM EST (link)

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” George Orwell

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” Will Rogers

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. Patrick Henry

http://theprecinctproject.wordpress.com
Because the Republican Party is NOT going to fix the Republican Party.

http://americanamendment.com/
Because Washington is NOT going to fix Washington.

Thank you... again

Patricia_C (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 9:13PM EST (link)

I still say there is something here that doesn’t pass the proverbial smell test. I put nothing past Obama’s drones. With their long awaited dreams of “fundamentally changing” the very foundation our country was built upon only to have thier dreams crushed by the will of We The People to maintain that foundation just as it is… they are desperate… and desperate people do desperate and dangerous things.

One thing though… In spite of the interestingly vague threat should I decide to report the message as spam rather than elect to be removed from their list… I damned the torpedos and… reported them as spam… and although it may not have been (in their words) “a good thing for all”… I sure enjoyed the gesture. But, then again, I am the sort who intentionally opens the opposite side of any package marked, “Open this end”.

“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

And I Am Betting That You Also Do Indeed

Ausonius (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 9:36PM EST (link)

“remove this tag under penalty of law”!!! :)

Probably your e-mail is from an independent minion, hoping to spread socialist dependence on Fearless Leader.

It is curious indeed, whatever it is and whoever wrote it.

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

Indeed, I do so with glee...

Patricia_C (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 10:14PM EST (link)

However did you know?

“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

 
 
 
 

Your Curious E-Mail Came From Seattle

Ausonius (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 8:48PM EST (link)

See:

http://ip-address-lookup-v4.com/lookup.php?ip=66.150.10.138

It is in a building at 6th Avenue and Union Street in Seattle: Google Maps are amazing! :)

That could just be the company providing the server, and not the actual source of the e-mail.

But maybe Jack Bauer or his new and very deadly friend Renee could shake them down for some information!

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

The Building Contains "The Washington Athletic Club"

Ausonius (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 9:04PM EST (link)

Coincidence?

It also contains an “Ann Taylor” dress shop!

I tried zooming in on the Directory of businesses, but it was too blurry!

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

Ooops

Patricia_C (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 9:15PM EST (link)

The above response was meant for you.
Dang it.

“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”