I received a strange email this morning, addressed to my blogdex email address which has nothing to do with Flickr, but exceptionally high SpamRank:
From: Dee (Barry@nishikoi.com)
To: blogdex@media.mit.edu
Subject: question about your photoI’ve accidently found your photo at a flickr and i’m very
interested in it.Can you tell me what place i can see in the background of
it?
—
wbr, Danny
Where “your photo” is a link to http://www.fri91.net/flickr,html. At the outset this appears to be a Flickr phishing scam; while on the train without a connection I was convinced I’d find a Flickr login screen when I followed the link to “my photo.” And you know that when your service is getting phishing scams, you have arrived.
The truth is much stranger. Go ahead, click the link. It’s not going to hurt you. In a sort of janky way, Barry has copied some of Flickr’s code and design along with some of his own “edits.” The page is hosted on a Norwegian soccer club’s website. The links on the page lead to tjhallett1’s Flickr data. The email domain is a fish food company. This piece of spam is a stumper.
The full email is here.
Update: Andy explained to me that this is, indeed, a scam. DO NOT visit the link in IE, it is some sort of Activex control hack. More details here and a virus definition describes the functionality on AusCERT.
It appears that this email is using the credibility of a site like Flickr and its community to get people’s attention and clicks. It’s no different than preying on people with the possibility of Anna Kournikova pictures.
overstated 
“DO NOT visit the link in IE, it is some sort of Activex control hack”
I guess you’ve already hacked it up a bit so it aint working, but for future, please put the warning before the link, not afterward.
You’ll get some impatient fellow like myself following the links in a backgrounded tab while still reading the story 🙂
Here’s another fraud attempt that I don’t understand exactly how it’s working:
http://amdsoft.com/2006/12/06/buyandsell-buyer-fraud/
Anna Kournikova is one of the sexiest russian tennis players i have ever seen. Russian tennis players are really pretty eh.~,,
i could wish that my wife is Anna Kournikova, she is really pretty ~
i love the hair of Anna Kournikova, i love long flowing blonde hair.-“
i like both Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova, both are great players and both have great bodies –
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