October 05, 2004

Who is JE Fatouch?

This is silly, so it´s all in the extended entry.

A few days ago, I got an email from no one I knew asking for an Orkut invitation. I decided against it, because, well, I don´t do that sort of thing.

Today, I got another email from the same guy:

Hello, this is an global message:
1) To: my new friends:
Thank you for invite me to your friend's list at http://orkut.com. I'll be your friend forever. A star shine already illuminates you.
Sorry, I'm unable to reply your messages at this time. Reason: I have 5,560 emails in my GMAIL inbox.The same as my Orkut account .
I will contact you personally as soon as possible.

2) To: people that has asked me if i know you:
Not, i`m just a human looking for friends. Are you human? Why are you so prevented? Please add me to yours friends list.

Best ,
J.E Fatuch
"It's love, not life, the opposite of dead'

What´s his goal? Did anyone else get this?

October 5, 2004 01:49 AM | TrackBack | in Other
Comments

I got a similar one also sent to my Gmail account, yet I don't use Orkut. Is this some Gmail bot?

Posted by: Jamie at October 5, 2004 03:30 AM

I'll just note here that the /form element of your comment form is still above the submit buttons, when I view-source from Firefox. Firefox does seem to compensate for this (though I have to reload to see the post rather than a cached copy, which is why I double-posted something yesterday), but it's still bad style. (Bad Danyel! No web-design biscuit!)

When I was still bothering to log into Orkut, I was getting at least one invite a week from some random oddball who wanted to friend everyone and their brother. Some of them might well have been bots, but I think mostly they were just losers. :-P

Posted by: Auros at October 5, 2004 09:35 AM

FYI - JE reveals his email address and a website near the end of the comments here:

http://www.iworks.uni.cc/archives/2004/06/14/got-on-orkut/

A whois on the website might be interesting.

Posted by: Scott Moore at October 5, 2004 12:25 PM