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Aloha Airlines account information in the hands of spammers

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Oh how the mighty have fallen. I just got this spam delivered to a unique e-mail alias that I used only for my frequently flyer miles account with the recently defunct Aloha Airlines. It looks like either they sold off their account/contact information as part of liquidating their assets or that data has been stolen.


Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 06:25:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: FILE FOR CLAIMS(REF NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742008)
From: "The United Kingdom National Lottery"
Reply-To: cgpdept05@gala.net
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 161.32.21.203
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Status: RO







The United Kingdom National Lottery.

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results
of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great
Britain held on the 1-5-2008.Your mail account have been picked as a
winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninety- one
thousand,nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds (?891,934.00
pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF
NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742008.This is from total prize money of
GBP?4,459,670.00shared among the FIVE(5) international winners in this
category.

Note:Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and our money remitted to you. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program.

Click on The email you See below for Swift reply..
Prof. Derek Max.
Email: cgpdept05@gala.net
Tel: +447031931675
Tel: +447031916681
Tel; +447031982752

VERIFICATION BEFORE TRANSFER
Name..country..Sex..Age..Occupation..Phone..Address..Status..
choose your claims option. (1)Courier(2)Bank Transfer

Contact** Prof Derek Max **Via Email**(cgpdept05@gala.net)For More info**
Mrs.Dianne Thompson. Online Coordinator,CAMELOT GROUP, Operator of The
National Lottery.

Coolmax Alta Shirts

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I’ve have a short sleeve sport t-shirt, that I probably bought almost a decade ago at an REI sale, that is one of my favorite pieces of clothing. This shirt is so used that it’s now getting small holes in it and replacing has now becoming urgent. That shirt has become my de facto “long flight” shirt as it does such a good job of keeping me dry and comfy.

I’ve basically been trying to buy more of/find a replacement ever since I bought it. The original brand seemed to have discontinued making shirts in this fabric around the time I purchased it. I’ve tried many, many, many different brands of “performance” outdoor shirts in a plethora of different fabrics but no fabric has even come close in terms of casual comfort. I even tried two different types of shirts from the same brand and neither fabric could hold a candle to the original. The one piece of luck I’ve had is that the tag in this shirt actually identities the fabric as “Coolmax Alta”. Researching this stuff online revels that “Alta” Coolmax is a denser weave than the other Coolmax series fabrics so it does a better job of wicking moister away from the body and won’t pill (most Coolmax fabrics do pill). The down side is that it is “warmer” which probably explains why it isn’t as popular as all of the new super light weight fabrics on the market (which FYI – pill and run like crazy).

Anyways, after Googling for the fabric brand I found RaceReady.com which sells long sleeve Coolmax Alta shirts and immediately placed an order. I can’t wait!