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April 27, 2005

Gouranga Spam

Today I received a few identical pieces of spam that left me scratching my head.

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:14:19 +0100
From: Neateye [nitaigouranga@aol.com]
Subject: Gouranga

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
That which brings the highest happiness!!

It's a plaintext email, no HTML. No links, phone numbers, pleas for help. Just a cryptic message about something called Gouranga.

I quick Google search returns some info that tells me this is some weird meme propagation effort by an unknown person or group. Very strange.

Posted by Cameron Barrett at April 27, 2005 01:19 PM
Comments

Judging by your Google rating we're all getting it.

I'm still getting over my

'Have a nice day '

SPAM
(feel good SPAM has arrived!!)


wierd stuff.


Posted by: Bob Dylan's guitar at May 5, 2005 06:24 PM

It seams to be som kinde of Hare Krishna SPAM

please see the following link:
http://www.thesmitten.com/archives/2005/04/gouranga.html


//Hans


Posted by: Hans at May 11, 2005 06:17 PM

Yeah, I got it also. Still have not figured it out...

-Gouranga


Posted by: Gouranga?? at May 12, 2005 11:26 AM

Apparently if you say it 108 times out loud then something special is suppossed to happen. At least that's what my email told me...


Posted by: Jethro at May 22, 2005 08:38 AM