OT: Interesting Emails

Atrocities · #1 January 11th, 2005, 05:35 PM

I love spam:

How interesting, I am being sued. It says so in this email I got. I must go to the web site and enter in all my personal information, including bank account info, to determine if I am the correct William Christopher. Very interesting indeed.

Oh lookie, and for "love muscle" enlargments and medication for woody Disfunction. I think not, God was kind to me at birth.

Oh wonderus, deals on cheap "factory" software. (Chinese copys of crappy MS products.) No thanks, if I want a crappy copy of an MS product, I will go to best buy

And yet another banker from Nigeria willing to cut me in on a great deal.

I get on average, about 8 of these a day now. I block them, and yet they still come. Oh well. The price I pay for sticking with crappy arse Email-Exress.

Timstone · #2 January 11th, 2005, 05:46 PM

Only 8 a day?! What the heck are you complaining about AT?! I get, hold on to your socks, a staggering 50 of those a day. Yes, that is in only 24 hours. Imagine when I go on vacation or away for work...

Ah well, I just ignore them and delete them with two simple clicks. I'm not bothered by them at all. They're just a fact of live.

Hahaha... Woody Disfunction. I love that term! Great thinking AT!

Oh, please look at the Tech Gridder thread I started.

Mindi · #3 January 11th, 2005, 05:51 PM

Be lucky you only get 8!

I probably get about a hundred or more a day, Richard gets several times that. We finally did get a commercial product for spam for Richard's email when it started taking him over a half an hour just to download his mail in the morning.

Oh and when we went on vacation this past summer for two weeks? That took HOURS and HOURS to download before he could even start going through it.

Raging Deadstar · #4 January 11th, 2005, 05:57 PM

I Get None, God is kind to my e-mail inbox

bearclaw · #5 January 11th, 2005, 06:00 PM

At one point, about a year ago, I was getting 300 a day! I've changed ISP's since then and now I get about 2 or 3 a week. ahhh.

Slynky · #6 January 11th, 2005, 06:05 PM

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Raging Deadstar said:
I Get None, God is kind to my e-mail inbox

I also get none.

rdouglass · #7 January 11th, 2005, 05:57 PM

A recent article said Billy G. gets something like 3 million a day!

Of course, he just hires a staff of programmers to deal with it for him.....

Atrocities · #8 January 11th, 2005, 10:12 PM

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Mindi said:
Be lucky you only get 8!

I probably get about a hundred or more a day, Richard gets several times that. We finally did get a commercial product for spam for Richard's email when it started taking him over a half an hour just to download his mail in the morning.

Oh and when we went on vacation this past summer for two weeks? That took HOURS and HOURS to download before he could even start going through it.

Ouch. I would think that there would be a need for a product that would download your email for you while you were on vacation. Auto detect spam and delete it while preserving real emails. Hummmmm - with all the game developers that Shrapnel knows perhaps some could make this program and sell it through shrapnel?

Mindi · #9 January 11th, 2005, 10:24 PM

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Atrocities said:

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Mindi said:
Be lucky you only get 8!

I probably get about a hundred or more a day, Richard gets several times that. We finally did get a commercial product for spam for Richard's email when it started taking him over a half an hour just to download his mail in the morning.

Oh and when we went on vacation this past summer for two weeks? That took HOURS and HOURS to download before he could even start going through it.

Ouch. I would think that there would be a need for a product that would download your email for you while you were on vacation. Auto detect spam and delete it while preserving real emails. Hummmmm - with all the game developers that Shrapnel knows perhaps some could make this program and sell it through shrapnel?

LOL, well this past vacation was particularly bad because we both agreed not to bring our laptops (and therefore check our mail) or we would end up doing work.

Arkcon · #10 January 11th, 2005, 06:11 PM

Something suddenly possessed my sister to start to open, read and printout the emails from her spam folder at work. I told her to just forget about it, but she's intrigued. She's mystified at the contents -- random words, strung together from one of those text generators. I told her it was an attempt to beat spam filters -- so she asks, "Why?".

You know, I have no answer for that question. The spam filter finds it anyway, so it doesn't even work. They're not trying to sell her anything, there's no plaintext. There's no embedded image or HTML to send an infection, so I'm drawing a blank as to why the emails are sent.

They're from a German domain, so I'm just guessing the computer geeks at her school have script kiddie friends in Europe and they slam the networks at each other's school for the fun of it.