Either the Thai Parliament is now a player in the global spam game, or the country’s Parliamentary mail server has been taken over by a bot herder who’s using it to send out what’s known as advance fee fraud spam.
According to an email from Teddy Woods, he’s willing to share $10.5 million US with me because I have the same last name as the dead guy who left Teddy the money. Sounds plausible to me. Teddy’s a lawyer, see, and the dead guy, Alfred, was his client.
Teddy says this is the third time he’s written to me and he’s starting to get a little pushy. It’s understandable, of course, if you’re trying to split $10.5 mill with a stranger who’s ignoring you. (Damned if I can find his earlier emails. But that’s another story…)
Anyway, Teddy wants me to email him back at <tededdywoods@gmail.com> right away so that we can get this show on the road.
Teddy’s not dumb enough to send his plea directly from gmail. He is, however, dumb enough to send it from ‘mail.parliament.go.th’
Let me break that down for you:
‘mail’ is the name of a mail server at ‘parliament.go.th’
‘go.th’ is the domain name owned by the Government of Thailand. It should be pretty easy to figure out what ‘parliament.go.th’ is all about.
The Parliament of Thailand, also known as Ratthasapha Thai, is that country’s national assembly based in Bangkok.
So I’m a little suspicious. Maybe I’ll wait to see if Teddy emails me again. Maybe this time from mail.prison.go.th
-g
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