I've always wondered what the story behind this spam was. Not being as optimistic as Dave Hill (who replied to the spam in McWilliams story), I'd always chalked it up to a mischievious spammer who was simply cleaning lists prior to sending out their latest Viagra volley. Not the case as it turns out.

And oddly, as if to somehow celebrate the Wired article, I received two more of these spam's this morning. Included below if you haven't had the pleasure of receiving one.

Read on for more....


Building a Time Machine by Spam Busted in 2001 for spamming, Robby Todino turned to mass e-mailings in his quest for time-travel technology. While netizens have had fun with the bizarre messages, Todino is serious. He's just waiting for the right intergalactic courier to come through. By Brian McWilliams.



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Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.
Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.
Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z, n), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any plans you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have a dimensional warp generator available, and are 100% certain you have a (safe secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply with a secure way to contact you. Send a separate email to me at:
webmaster@custompaintshop.net


Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to you.

Thank You
Brian Appel


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