ZOMFG GMAIL IS GETTIN TEH IMAP FTW.

(yay!)

Relatively creative 419, citing news sources and, I'm guessing, buying the militaryemail.com domain and setting up a pretty convincing website. Gmail's spam blocker still caught it.

A for effort, assholes.

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From: US Soldier

Mailed-By: jupiter.kreativmedia.ch

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


*Encrypted Message from A US Soldier*

*Good day *
*This is a fully Encrypted Message for Security Reasons *


*I am A US Soldier(NAME WITHHELD),I served with the 1st Armored Division in Iraq.My superior and I moved funds belonging to Saddam Hussein, the total is $25,000,000.00

(Twenty Five million US dollars)*


*Click on this link to read about the events that took place here *


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm


*Basically since we are working for the government we cannot keep these funds, we have decided to look for someone to help us keep this funds this is why I have contacted you, so you can keep it for us in your safe account or an offshore account. *

*We will divide the total funds in three ways, since we are three involved in this. You will take 30%, and 30% will be for me, and my superior will take 30%. 10% will be kept aside for expenses*


*This is confidential and should not be discussed with anyone.*
*There is no risk involved whatsoever because we have covered this up since 2003*
*If you are interested i will send you the full details *
*Please reply me asap*

• Log in to Yahoo Mail
• click Options
• select Account information from the left panel
• go to Member Information, General Preferences, Preferred Content
• select, for example, Yahoo UK
• click Finished
• go to Yahoo Mail
• you’ll see a page that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.”
• click on “Try Beta Now”.

Link

I'll admit that I was pretty eager to give the Yahoo Mail beta a try, though I wasn't expecting wonderful things from it. As someone who once upon a time used Outlook Express until Hotmail started charging for access through desktop clients, I missed that desktop mail app feel until Gmail came along. Then I forgot all about it because the Gmail paradigm is leaps and bounds better than the standard multi-pane desktop thing.

So I found the above workaround for getting access to the not-yet-totally-public Yahoo Mail beta. It works exactly as described, and I was able to switch back to to the US version afterward without reverting to the old-style interface.

So it looks and feels like a desktop mail client, but in my browser. In my book, this is a negative.

It's 2006... over two years since Gmail launched. Didn't they get the memo? If someone sends me an email and I reply, why would I want the two artificially separated into "inbox" and "sent"? Way to keep perpetuating the unnatural paper paradigm, guys.

But I digress. If you like that paradigm and use Yahoo for your mail, this is probably for you.