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                     “Break out them scisors, Martha … ”

Via Spring [1] comes your harddrive! [2]

Well, only if you are using Microsoft IE (Internet Explorer). It doesn't seem
to work under Netscape or Mozilla.

But really, it's an old old scam. Heck, I did something similar years ago at
FAU (Florida Atlantic University) [3] when I started playing around with the
web. If you're a Windows user, here's a copy of your machine's configuration.
[4] For you Unix people, how about I snag your password file [5]. Sorry Mac
people, I don't have access to a Mac to know where to grab vital system
information so for now you're safe.

At least from me.

Actually, I don't have copies of your files. Those are your copies. Honest.
It's just that I instructed your browser to pull up the file from your
computer. I don't have a copy.

Now, this came about because of the scare tactics that Evidence Eliminator
[6] are using to drum up sales from gullible people (“gullible,” by the way,
doesn't appear in the dictionary).

Ha ha.

Sorry about that.

Anyway, they have a page, http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/go.shtml [7],
which they use to scare gullible people with. Reload it a few times. It is
rather amusing. And the information they have on you is information that any
site has on you. I have on you. [8]

Better break out those scissors and cut the network connection.

Sheesh.

[1] http://www.springdew.com/
[2] http://connected.springdew.com/m.html
[3] http://www.fau.edu/
[4] file:///C
[5] file:///etc/passwd
[6] http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/
[7] http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/go.shtml
[8] https://boston.conman.org/cgi-bin/info.cgi

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