Re: elvis@graceland.com: Re: Postel's Draft

[Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>]

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Simon Higgs wrote:

> At 9:52 PM -0500 1/1/97, Perry E. Metzger blathered:
> 
> Gee Perry... I'd take it very seriously and call the police, the FBI,
> the Secret Service, your local congress critter, and as many TV & radio
> call-in shows as you can. They love people with stories like yours.

Well that settles it...
I am in disbelief that Simon would treat such a sensitive issue with an 
incredible amount of disregard for the law and outright respect.

I guess he is serious Perry, I would call the Police..
 
> Apparently, this message was also sent to <president@whitehouse.com> as
> the elvis account received an automated reply from there. They'll be
> wondering why you were masquerading as a alien and admitting that you
> are involved in some fraudulent scheme with a $2 billion defense
> contractor (which has already been convicted on several counts of
> felony fraud).
> 
> Back on planet earth, in case anyone is interested in some light
> reading, there's an internet draft - draft-elvis-email-spoof-00.txt -
> about the widespread abuse from mail forgeries that this particular
> account gets.
> 
> I have no idea who did this, but it looks like you've been well and
> truely had. Plus it looks like you set yourself up for it too.
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> P.S. We've seen several unsuccessful attempts at break-ins here over
> the christmas holiday.
> 
> > Anyone here think this is an actual death threat from Simon Higgs (the
> > owner of graceland.com and most certainly the owner of the machine
> > that delivered this message to my mail server) or is it just chaff that
> > I should be ignoring?
> >
> > Perry
> >
> > ------- Forwarded Message
> >
> > Return-Path: simon@higgs.com
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> > In-Reply-To: <199701011909.OAA05187@jekyll.piermont.com>
> > References: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 21:33:50 EST."
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> > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 15:27:37 -0800
> > To: perry@piermont.com
> > From: elvis@graceland.com
> > Subject: Re: Postel's Draft
> >
> > At 2:09 PM -0500 1/1/97, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >
> > > Marc Hurst writes:
> > > > Not only is this a sacriligous comment but it is insulting to claim this
> > > > internationaliztion exists when there are no members outside the United
> > > > States.
> > >
> > > Ah, you've caught on to our nefarious scheme! We've been claiming that
> > > many of the members of the IAHC don't live in the U.S., but that was
> > > of course just a front. For example, "Jun Murai" is not a real
> > > person. He's just an actor we hired. We got him, "Geoff Huston",
> > > "Robert Shaw", "Albert Tramposch", and "Hank Nussbacher" as a package
> > > deal from a rep theater company in Santa Cruz, California. They've
> > > been doing a really good job of pretending to be from outside the
> > > U.S. -- and they've been very competitive price wise. Although we have
> > > access to a large pool of money secretly maintained by the Grey Aliens
> > > via their "NSI" cover (the so-called $7million), it still pays to be
> > > economical. As you know, the Greys have been attempting for some time
> > > to get control of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, and their
> > > work with certain former U.S. intelligence operatives via the "SAIC"
> > > organization (which they in fact secretly control) has yielded
> > > extraordinary benefits. Although this has alleviated some funding
> > > problems, the quantities expended in the course of the overarching
> > > worldwide conspiracy are always very large and budgets get tight.
> > >
> > > Just so you know, though, the $20,000 has nothing to do with the
> > > budget problems the Aliens are facing at all. The $20,000 business is
> > > in fact far more nefarious than any of you realize. The purpose isn't
> > > to get money, but to assure that accounting clerks at large internet
> > > service organizations be infected with the secret mind control virus
> > > we've created. The virus is mixed with DMSO and impregnated into the
> > > returned checks we will be sending back -- the DMSO acts to transport
> > > the virus through the skin. We need the accounting departments of
> > > these organizations to be fully under our power in order to assure
> > > that they will not notice the tremendous accounting discrepancies
> > > associated with the large numbers of high speed internet links
> > > secretly in use by the Council on Foreign Relations, another one of
> > > our fronts. Did you know, by the way, that Jon Postel is secretly in
> > > control of the CFR? The whole academic in birkenstocks thing is just a
> > > pose.
> > >
> > > By the way, several of the IAHC's members aren't even humans at all,
> > > although with the mimetic plastic bodysuits they wear it would be
> > > impossible for you to notice without careful examination.
> > >
> > > Now, of course, that you've blown our cover, we'll just have to
> > > dissolve ourselves and escape back to the mother ship. Clever seeing
> > > through our evil plan this time, but you won't be so lucky the next.
> > >
> > > Klatu Nemron of Zorgoth B, a.k.a "Perry Metzger"
> > > Speaking for myself, and not the Supreme Council of Interstellar Overlords.
> >
> > Cool. Now we have a valid reason to kill you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------- End of Forwarded Message
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Simon
> 
> --
> If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
> 
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