OT: Interesting Emails

Arkcon · #1 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.

Raging Deadstar · #2 January 11th, 2005, 06:15 PM

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Arkcon said:
Something suddenly possessed my sister to start to open, read and printout the emails from her spam folder at work...

Is your sister unhappy at work and trying to waste the company printer ink?

Ragnarok-X · #3 January 11th, 2005, 06:38 PM

Well until i setup a new email address i got like 20+ per day. Now im getting one or two per day, which is okay...

Gandalph · #4 January 11th, 2005, 06:54 PM

Before I moved to Washington, I was getting 50-75 a day. I was in Washington for over 3 years. When I came back to Santa Cruz, I signed back on with my old ISP using the same nick since it was still available. When I set up my email account and downloaded new email......Yep, over 8000 emails and all of them spam, some of them pretty nasty spam that could have potentially caused problems, some nasty virii. It seems my ISP never deleted my original account and just reattached me too it when I came back. 3 years worth of spam, OH MY!!!

Needless to say, I asked them to delete that account and continue to use my own server account. On that one, I use 3 different email addy's and, surprisingly, receive an inordinate amount of spam at the seiv addy. I seldom see it, however, as I use a spam filter (GFI Mail Essentials) and have it set to delete weekly. I occasionally check to make sure it is not catching legit emails.

kerensky · #5 January 11th, 2005, 07:18 PM

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Well until i setup a new email address i got like 20+ per day. Now im getting one or two per day, which is okay...

Before I changed E-mail addresses I would get about twenty a day on average.

Now if you want to talk about volumes of useful e-mail, you should visit my dads work e-mail. On good days he gets less than fifty non-spam e-mail (you know, from people he actually knows). He's said that he's actually gotten over a hundred non-spam e-mails in one day!!!

Atrocities · #6 January 11th, 2005, 10:16 PM

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Gandalph said:
Before I moved to Washington, I was getting 50-75 a day. I was in Washington for over 3 years. When I came back to Santa Cruz,

Another defector!

The Evergreen state is GOD COUNTRY! Be sure to tell everyone down there to STAY in CA. Tell them that WA is a horrible backwards hillbilly place with dirt roads filled with horse and buggies.

Please.

Renegade 13 · #7 January 12th, 2005, 12:14 AM

I usually only get about 2 spam emails a day, and that's with the email address that I've had since I was 12. So for almost 6 years, I've managed to avoid becoming innundated with spam. It's a miracle!!

Randallw · #8 January 12th, 2005, 01:26 AM

It sometimes surprises me the emails I get. Sometimes it simply says "Here is that attachment you asked for", I think not

, or even no message at all. Either they are stupid or they think I am. I don't know which is worse.

Atrocities · #9 January 12th, 2005, 04:38 AM

Wouldn't it just be hiliarious if we found out that windows gathered our email information and then uploaded said info to MS and then MS sold that info to Spammers. I would drive the 300 miles to MS Corprate office and pee on the MS Sign out front. When asked why, I shall say the insessent spam email I got because MS sold my info drove me insane. Wanna bet I get off.... ew, ok bad joice of words.... get away with it.

Grandpa Kim · #10 January 12th, 2005, 01:30 PM

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Atrocities said:
Wouldn't it just be hiliarious if we found out that windows gathered our email information and then uploaded said info to MS and then MS sold that info to Spammers. I would drive the 300 miles to MS Corprate office and pee on the MS Sign out front. When asked why, I shall say the insessent spam email I got because MS sold my info drove me insane. Wanna bet I get off.... ew, ok bad joice of words.... get away with it.

LOL With a jury of your peers, MS wouldn't stand a chance. ROFL

I'm still training Thunderbird's junk mail filter, so I see much of my spam. ... If I bought a tenth of the prescription drugs offered to me I'd be stoned for the rest of my natural life and well into the hereafter!

...But the money I'd save would make me as wealthy as dear Mr. Gates.