Following the very recent demise of Mr M Jackson, I received my first phishing e-mail this morning;
------------------------------------------ "Reimbursement due to death of Pop King{Michael Jackson}
Due to millions of people that bought tickets for the show,i advise you contact me immediately to avoid being on a long queue.
Mrs.Mitchelle Holmes, Head of operation"
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Doesn't take the scumbags long does it?
Why can't they write the things in English?
Didn't.
Dodn't was one of the Jackson Six.
Sounds like a Nigerian (417?) scam rather than phishing though.
I just looked, and there's one in my junkmail. The reply mail address points to a Microsoft host, so I assume it's an attempt to mailbomb microsoft indirectly, rather than to scam any money from you.
The poor English in Nigerian scams is 100% deliberate. It significantly increases the take-up rate, apparently. I recall reading why, but I can't remember now.
Be glad they can't - makes them far less plausible.
Well, one might assume that if they're daft enough to spend money on an M. Jackson concert......
Toom
He sold over 100 million copies of Thriller. That's a lot of potential customers.
Andy
Yep, phishers would certainly be interested in 100 million potential customers
Toom
I heard various figures on the news over last couple of days ranging from 55 million to 70 million, but not 100 million. However, even though that's the largest single one, this is only a tiny proportion of his total sales.
True, but he *did* manage to hack-off a lot of fans at the time by releasing pretty much the whole thing as singles, too. Plus of course, the closer he gets to deification, the larger his sales will be reported to have been
Wikipedia says sales are estimated to between 47 to 100 million.
That is some accounting error. I wonder how many sales he paid tax on.
Adam
PS I bought the Album.
I seem to have missed it at the time - probably thought it wasn't my thing. I watched a poor quality version on youtube a couple of days ago and thought it was good. I also found that he took out a patent for leaning shoes
22 years later it is still done. Not with patented shoes this time (see 1min 10 secs in)
MJ was a talented performer. Not my favourite performer but still innovative.
Adam
Duh
link here
Which is the source I used. And yet
Ah - but this one
OK, a bit more digging:
I'm bored with that. I don't even like it that much!
Andy
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