Any one else get this?

[Stephen]

Not sure if this is just a ask for help or a scam, Anyone else get this?

Dear Stephen,

I am Andrea from Venice, Italy. I found your e-mail address in the net in a website where it is written about Japanese blades. I ask you if you could help me,as you are a great expert (i wish), to know a bit more about the history of the blade that I have. I am a beginner and I hope you will help me in finding some news about my blade. I sent you some pictures of the nagako and the blade.

 

Best regards,

Andrea

 

This is a Jumbo Mail, xxxxx@libero.it sent to you to share

 

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* IMG_9148.JPG (5030976 byte)

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* _MG_9122.JPG (3274604 byte)

* _MG_9163.JPG (3585043 byte)

* _MG_9162.JPG (3683459 byte)

 

You can download the files by clicking on following URL:

http://jumbomail.libero.it/r?d=libero.i ... vs22334451

 

The content will be available only before 21.07.2010 at 00:44.

 

Jumbo Mail is the service by http://www.libero.it to enable sending huge attachments, allowing you to share files up to 2 GB, overcoming your mailbox limits.

 

Im a bit leary about cutting and pasting the link. Safe or sorry?

[Rich S]

I haven't gotten that email, but I make it a policy NEVER to click on an unknown link sent by an anonymous person or anyone that I don't know.

Best way to avoid viruses, etc. Better safe than sorry.

 

Rich S

[george trotter]

Stephen,

chances are he got your details off this board...if so, why didn't he just post his stuff on the board he has been watching?

Like Richard said, I wouldn't trust it either.

Regards,

Geo.

[Justin Grant]

Since I am at work, and have every AV tool known to mankind, I opened the link and the photos. They are "virus" free. I opened each of them except for the zip file. Each image is 3.5+ MB each, this may be why they used Jumbo Mail to post the pictures.

 

The nakago has a large inscription, to which, I am not qualified to read.

 

Justin

[Stephen]

Thanks Justin

 

seems i cant open the file to help him out. Ill email him back to let him know.

[Justin Grant]

I will grab them, resize them, and post here. Give me a few.

[Justin Grant]

Well, that did not work. I get an error message in Italian, and I assume it says we can't download more than 4 images and I got all of the blade pictures but not the inscription... The last photo...

 

Sorry.

[Stephen]

i recived one at a time ...very large pix... need to reduce. its a Takayama sword.

[xxlotus8xx]

Hi Stephen

If you email me the links I can open it with my Unix machine.---Nevermind I saw the link

[Stephen]

the sword is signed like this

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/masanao.jpg

 

ill try to reduce size as work looks to be good in the blade.

[Kevin]

Hi Stephen

 

I think it's a guy I know, in which case he's kosher. Leastways I know an Andrea who has an email ending like that who is into swords. He's on the Italian nihonto forum.

 

Kevin

[Stephen]

if anyone cares to offer the togi name ill pass it along.

[cspage]

He probably picked Stephen because of the welcoming, smiley face avatar, not knowing what he was really getting.

 

Colin

[loiner1965]

He probably picked Stephen because of the welcoming, smiley face avatar, not knowing what he was really getting.

 

Colin

lol.....joking aside.....stephen was the perfect choice as he is always helping others out which is a credit to him and this forum.....well done stephen

[cspage]

Of course he was, but we can't let it go to his head, n'est ce pas?

 

Sorry, the sun came out here last week after eternal winter and spring of grey gloomy extremely wet weather. Makes one giddy and glib. No more jibes. Back to topic.

 

Colin

 

P.S. Stephen did help me out last year, too, for which I am grateful.

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Stephen, sorry for late reply.

 

Guess Kevin is right and Andrea's sword is this one :

 

http://www.intk-token.it/forum/index.ph ... =6141&st=0