*wibble*

[lnr]

This is the strangest spam I have seen in ages. Even better than the gadget for pulling arrows out of trees:

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL WARNING!

A huge 300 ft. high ocean wave is moving towards your continent.
Your and many other cities are in a real danger.
Approximate wave moving speed is 700 km/h.
Please read more about this catastrophe here:
<a href="http://www.tsunamishere.com/">http://www.tsunamidanger.com/</a>

We are strongly urging you to evacuate yourself and your family as soon as possible,
even though you may live far away from your city.
The tsunami will reach the continent in approximately FOUR hours.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

WARNING: Don't follow that link, it's a trojan: Details here

Comments

[aldabra]

I think if I was going to be hit by a tsunami I'd rather be in a house than in a car at the time.

[j4.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of Christopher Brookmyre's "Not the end of the world"...

[simonb.livejournal.com]

That is a very different spam, but I suppose its one way to get people to visit a web site.

Interestingly enough, there is a real risk of something like this happening. There is an island in the mid-pacific which may create such a way if one half of the mountain on the island falls off into the sea - something which is possible due to the action of water on the faults in the rock. Sometimes its scary watching the Discovery channel...

[natural20.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, visit their website and download some malware. I was reading about this earlier, the website attempts to use some browser vulnerabilities to download malware and run it on the connecting PC. I don't have the details to hand, but it is a slightly more interesting tack then "Click here for nekkid women!"

It's still evil of course...

[sparrowsion]

So it's 2800km out, which I think means it must be coming from the Atlantic (I can't quickly find a size for the North Sea, but it appears to be about 1000km). So we've got at least all of southern England (including Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor, which all comforatbly top 300ft) between it and us. I don't see much point in evacuation.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the West Flank of Kilauea, again. The one we're supposed to worry about La Palma in the Canary Islands, whereby the Eastern Seaboard of the USA gets flattened and we get inundated by the reflected wave.

In both cases, there's a lot more than four hours' warning. Months, in fact. there's a reasonable article from geotimes (http://www.geotimes.org/oct04/NN_tsunami.html) on realistic risks... And a marvellous disaster-movie scenario (http://www.rense.com/general56/tsu.htm) from a sensationalist at the Daiy Excrescence.

[lnr]

I thought it would be something like that, but couldn't spot anything in the source. Presumably there's a re-direct stage I missed. (Using Mozilla on HPUX I figured I was fairly safe :-)

Details here

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

As Liz says: we live in a low-lying swamp, dear. We flood anyway.

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

I've seen weirder spiced ham today:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/xterminal/129585.html

NOT! WORK! SAFE!

[lnr]

Ok, that's weird.

WS: nor is your icon!