Re: Anyone know what this is?

From: Gary Petersen (garyp1492_at_remove.meearthlink.invalid)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:49:23 GMT

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:08:12 -0500, Chris Cox created an award-winning
crop circle <bk5gm6$o9u@library2.airnews.net>, which, when translated into
English, means this:

> David wrote:
>>
>> I got this in an email and was curious as to what it was. I added the
>> "#" at the beginning of each line. I'm guessing it is some more M$
>> virus code but I don't know.
>> Any ideas?
>
> It's a base64 mime encoded message. You can save this and use something
> like uudeview to decode it to a file (what you do with the file
> afterwards is up to you of course).
>
> All binary data attachments sent through mail have to be ASCII encoded..
> and most mail clients use base64 nowadays.
>
> Of course, I tried decoding the [text] and it came up with an empty
> message.
>
>

I was able to decode it by using "sed" to remove the hash marks that David
placed at the start of each line (to protect us from a possible trojan).

It's a standard bank-account scam where they sucker you into giving them
your bank-account number then steal you blind:

> James Gaga
> Monrovia
> Liberia
>
> email- [ removed ]
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> I write this august letter in confidence, believing that you are in a
> position to assist me in this pending project of mine.
>
> To enable me update you accordingly, I will unveil very classified
> information to enable you understand the situation at hand.
>
> I am James Gaga, Personal assistant to late Engr. Chang Young.
>
> The Proposal:A Chinese Citizen, Late Engr. Chang Young, a construction
> Engineer that executed multi million dollar contracts here
> in Liberia was killed.
>
> Until his death, he operated a domiciliary off-shore account had a
> closing balance as at the end of June 2002 amounting to $20,500,000.00 (
> Twenty Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only).
>
> [ ... blah blah blah ]

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