I received a suspicious e-mail recently, which I believe may be a precursor to dodgy dealings of some kind. I thought I'd post about it here, in case anyone else with a graphics website might get something similar - or may already have done so.

[quote]

Subject: Love your 3D graphics stuff :)
From: (name removed) <name removed@yahoo.com>
To: me

Hello,
you sure do have some awesome photos in your gallery and very cool you offer tutorials, very nice :) I wanted to know if I could buy advertising on a page on morphography.uk.vu? If that is something you might be interested in please let me know.

Thanks and have a wonderful day![/quote]

Yahoo accounts have been used for spam quite a lot recently. Other than that, there's nothing in the e-mail that couldn't have been gathered by a clever script. "3D graphics" is in my site's keyword list, and the gallery and tutorials are obvious links from my front page. That message could have been generated without a human being ever even looking at my site.

Note that 'she' doesn't say what she wants to advertise, or on which page, which is the sort of information I'd expect from someone who uses so many smilies. :) I'm assuming this is designed to activate my greed gland and if I answer, in the subsequent correspondence I'll be asked for my bank details (so that 'she' can pay me, naturally).

I propose to ignore it, anyway, and if you receive something similar I'd recommend you do the same.

A lot of this is going on in West-Europe lately.

A true company would always add correct, complete and verifiable contact information and at least a logo.

I could start a hotel here with all my East-Europe ladies that are sooo in love....
End of last year it was realy bad. At least two new canidate lovers each week.

I know. I tell every one of them that my avatar is a 3D render, and that I don't look as handsome as that in real life, and I never hear from them again. :(

Ha, I used to tell them I was broke. Never heard from them again.

Now I just delete without opening.

u 2 are just toooooooooooooooooooo good looking ;-)

Yeah. It's a blessing, and a curse.

:lol:  

doesnt awesome and cool date the sender a bit. I believe trendy young people use phat and jiggy ;-)

How come you get offers to advertise and I get cryptic messages about getting bigger ?  At 203 pounds I am trying to lose weight and not get bigger ;-)

:lol:

Ha, ;-) I am half you. Just over a hundred.