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Technical BBQ sauce information

I get a lot of spam, but this one is new to me:

From: Tech Support [mailto:Admin4@mllka.com]
Sent: June 8, 2007 8:34 PM
Subject: Here is the information you were asking for.

Recipe for great BBQ Sauce:

INGREDIENTS
1 quart apple cider vinegar
1 (20 ounce) bottle ketchup
1/4 cup paprika
1 pound dark brown sugar
1/4 cup salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
2 tablespoons red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup lemon juice

DIRECTIONS
In a large container, mix together the apple cider vinegar, ketchup, paprika, brown sugar, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, garlic powder, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice. Pour into an empty vinegar bottle, ketchup bottle or other container and store in the refrigerator for up to
1 month.

The email was plain text so no virus or tracking payload that I could find. Not sure what possible benefit that sending this spam message could have to anyone, unless this is the BBQ sauce that you’re supposed to serve on your Spam.

{ 4 } Comments

  1. Michael Nelson | June 19, 2007 at 2:20 pm | Permalink

    I get tons of these messages too, and like you can’t see what the purpose is, other than that they are annoying.

    They are always from “AdminX@mllka.com”, where X can be any single digit number.

    Very wierd and pointless.

  2. sandy | June 20, 2007 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

    I seem to recall a round of comment spam about a year ago that was seemingly innocuous but nonsensical; I think that it might have been testing the spam filters, because a deluge of comment spam followed shortly thereafter.

  3. Gina Jennissen | July 8, 2007 at 9:15 am | Permalink

    Just searched for Admin4 @ mllka.com, as I received a salad recipe on my company email account from that source. Instead I found your blog! Wasn’t sure what to make of it, but now I am happy to see that I won’t be infecting the company server with a nice virus!

  4. Jim | April 16, 2008 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    Just got a copy of an e-mail from the same source: that said
    Quote:

    Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
    time we fall.

    Confucius

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