Spam
For months now, I have been getting emails inviting me to construction conferences. I've been invited to Aerotropolis Summit (Hong Kong), BIM Summit (Bangkok), Industrial Estates & Warehousing (Brisbane), Mass Timber Real Estate & Development Summit (Brisbane), Modern Methods of Construction (Brisbane), Modern Property Construction & Development Summit (Brisbane), Modular, Prefab & Construction Tech Senate (Bangkok), Net-Zero Construction Summit (Paris), Seismic Resilient Structures (Tokyo), Shopping Malls Summit (Hong Kong), and Steel Frame Construction (Bangkok). The few I've searched are real conferences and they've all come from the same two names Liam T or Alex G, so maybe they're just real invitations and I accidentally got onto an East-Asian/Oceana construction conference mailing list. But also, every email has come from a different domains and while plausible-looking the domain names don't match the conference name and don't seem to resolve.
This month, I've been getting messages with the subject 'hi' and a body with a simple request for a reply with letters removed (presumably to beat my spam filter) such as "I ask fr yr urgt rpl" or "If u can, pls kndly rspond quik"
Last month was my favourite though. I got a half-dozen emails where the from and to addresses were random 8 digit numbers (for any domain I have set up, I have Fastmail show me email sent to any address). In all cases there is no subject. Each email contains the following:
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