OT: Interesting Emails - Page 3

Mindi · #21 January 11th, 2005, 10:24 PM

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Atrocities said:

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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.

Baron Munchausen · #22 January 11th, 2005, 10:38 PM

I've had a degree of success in reporting scammers to their email providers, btw. When you get those 'give us your bank account number so we can transfer funds out of the country' Messages just view source (to get the real point of origin in the headers) and send them to abuse @ <source> -- BOTH the email reply-to address (because that's the pickup/contact point) and the actual source for the email. It only takes seconds and lots of ISPs will respond by at least closing the account(s) involved. I have substantially reduced the amount of this sort of spam that I am getting by being persistent with this counter-measure.

Fyron · #23 January 11th, 2005, 10:44 PM

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Yep...

Now that I use Mozilla for my email instead of Outlook Bug-Express I have set it to NOT load images and other URLs in emails. You are just telling the spammers that they have a live one when you look at the email unless you deliberately disconnect before viewing it.

I generally get several spam Messages a day but nothing like what most people get. I managed to keep my email address very private/restricted for a long time so I didn't get much spam and was still using OE out of habit/inertia. But I got a 'phishing' attack email that loaded some sort of automatic script (invoking IE despite my default browser being Mozilla) and tried to send me to a website in China a few months ago and that was it for OE. Now I'm using Mozilla and Mozilla mail exclusively. No more Ieeee or Oeeee problems for meeee!

I tend to have Iexplore.exe blocked by my firewall.

Kamog · #24 January 11th, 2005, 11:06 PM

I get those strange cryptic Messages too that seem to be just a collection of random words. I also get Messages with mystery attachments that I immediately delete.

Renegade 13 · #25 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 · #26 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 · #27 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.

Ragnarok · #28 January 12th, 2005, 01:22 PM

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I used to get 50 - 75 a day at work. Changing isp or email wasn't an option. Someone here mentioned a product called "IHateSpam" and let me tell you the difference is amazing. I get just a few a day now and they are quickly dealt with by one click. Some mornings I open my email and there are no spam emails in my inbox. It's so nice.

I believe that was me that suggested IHateSpam. We love that product here at work as NO spam makes it to our inbox. One user gets about 200+ per day in his spam list but none gets by the system.

Grandpa Kim · #29 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.

David E. Gervais · #30 January 12th, 2005, 01:38 PM

Why is it that many people think 'Paying Less' is the same as 'Saving money'? It's not. To save money you need to stash it away for safe keeping. In the case of spending less it would mean depositing the 'difference' between the sale price and the regular price in a bank account so that it can gain interest.

But I digress, and this is my 2700th post

Cheers!

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