Sorry for this OT thread, but I'm sick & tired of these stupid emails I keep getting sent into my hotmail account. I don't check this account very often so when I do there's loads of this crap as well as the normal ones. I think you know the ones I'm talking about. Here's two I'll use as an example I saw today:
'always Granny in glasses giving bl8w-J8b'
'gorgeous tranny with fat c8ck'

I've changed a couple of letters to protect the innocent.
Now come on, is anyone stupid enough to actually open these emails? Where have they got my address from? I don't remember visiting any dodgy sites. Well, not recently anyway!

I think I'm going to have to stick with Outlook Express in future.
Anyone else get this kind of garbage?

Just found another:
'form ccooocck bouncing maatuuree blonde c'

Message to spammers - "Look you sad drongos, we are not half as retarded as you look, get a life!"

It's late & I need sleep.

Yahoo is generally good at filtering out garbage.  Of the few that make it into my inbox, I just delete them.

'Wanted: Rice Paddy Daddies'

What the f.........!!

'Renderosity Weekly Newsletter'

Oh no wait, that's a genuine one.

I get the ones that want my personal information so they can give me millions of dollars. I'm still waiting and dang it I need it cause somebody emptied my bank account the other day and all my credit cards are maxed out too all of a sudden, but they won't reply to my emails. The police called and said I cashed a check for 40,000 dollars someplace I can't even pronounce the name of and it bounced. I really need that money. I wish they'd follow through as promised.

dognor - So those emails saying you can earn millions aren't genuine then? And here's me typing out my private details to them as we speak.

Quote - I get the ones that want my personal information so they can give me millions of dollars. I'm still waiting and dang it I need it cause somebody emptied my bank account the other day and all my credit cards are maxed out too all of a sudden, but they won't reply to my emails. The police called and said I cashed a check for 40,000 dollars someplace I can't even pronounce the name of and it bounced. I really need that money. I wish they'd follow through as promised.

I feel your pain.  My girlfriend replied to one that said "Enormous penis in 7 days" and I replied to the one that said "We guarantee gigantic boobs".  Still heard nothing back from either one.

Sam - I don't think those gigantic boobs would suit you.

Oh well, I just got another one. Maybe this one will follow through. Gotta go the cops are knocking at the door. See Ya

I have AT&T Yahoo and it filters that junk. But I do scan my junk folder to be sure something important didn't go there. As for opening them...huh uh, no way! And I get stuff like that too though I never, ever surfed such a site. The one that really cracked me up had this as a topic, "Mrs. Payne, enlarge your manhood and have all the women you want". I mean, how many men are called "Mrs."? Or how's this one, "Mrs. Payne, you'll be amazed at the size of your penis". You better believe I'd be amazed...LOL.

Quote - "Mrs. Payne, you'll be amazed at the size of your penis". You better believe I'd be amazed...LOL.

Stop it, my sides are killing me, LOL! :lol:

What gets people sending those out is - you mail 500,000 spams in a batch (really, that's about average).  Maybe 5 people sign up for your shitty website, in which case you just made a a few hundred bucks.  Or if you're a credit card/ID theft scammer, maybe 1 person is actually dumb enough to send you their bank info - you can write your own check, literally.

As to where they got your address - well - a lot of people think that Rendo gives it out, one way or another.  See the community forum for examples.

In the good old days spammers just plastered sites with banners that earned them a penny a hit. Then along came expanded functionality Java and bots. Email has never been the same.
Who else wants a gigantic weenie?

I've been getting a lot of those the last couple of weeks. Most that get through the spam filters are AOL. Then it dawned on me. My nephew and niece, gave the AOL Movie site my addy and downloaded a AOL viewer to watch them. I got rid of the viewer, I hope, but that is when I started getting all that spam.

There really should be a hunting season for spammers and a $0.25 bounty for each pair of ears.

I remember as a kid, we used to get $0.10 a tail for gophers. Used to collect the horse hair of the fences because it was worth money too. I just can't remember what the price was.

I get so much junk spam that I keep accidentally deleting desirable e-mail while cleaning it all out.  Grumble.

And some of the spam has me baffled.  I've been trying to figure out what the heck a "MILF" is supposed to be.  (Did I get that right?  MILF?  Hmm.)  It's the sort of thing I assume one doesn't want to try to Google in search of a definition, based on the context in which it was used.  Cage loses sleep over puzzles like this.  :-P

I have my spam filter set to such draconian levels I don't get those.
It's kind of self defeating, though. Legitimate emails often end up in the spam bin, so I have to check through it from time to time to see if there is anything serious in there by mistake. Then i see all those weird subject lines. I've never opened on of 'them'. Too afraid of viruses and not interested enough in "Barnyard Babes XXX".

stormchaser - you might want to check your filter options.  My hotmail sends anyone that I don't add to my safe list over to bulk mail to look at when I feel like it.  It's much better than my what my service provider does, which is why I switched back over to hotmail.

If you're interested, i received one with good prices for Viagra. I can share with friends! :lol:

Quote - I've been trying to figure out what the heck a "MILF" is supposed to be.

MILF stands for 'Mothers I'd Like To F---'

I wrote this in case anyone else receives this garbage.

Half of this tripe does go to my junk mail. Oh well, I quess it's easy enough to just ignore & delete.

I get quite a few asking to use my bank account to help them get money into the UK and loads telling me they need my bank details to transfer my lottery winnings to my bank ( I wish !) Some of them are getting scarily realistic though ....... I got one supposedly from Lloyds Bank recently, complete with the black horse logo and all, saying I needed to adjust my online banking details with them. Only problem was that I don't actually bank with Lloyds and never have . Just yesterday I got a notice saying I'd been sent an E-Card, something various family members do from time to time. Even though it didn't say who from, and they usually do I foolishly clicked the link and immediately a download started. Now that NEVER happens with a legit e-card, you view them on line, so I stopped the dl immediately after it began and ran a virus test on my system just incase. Dumb of me I know but I hadn't had one of those before. Once bitten twice shy ! My current filters screen out the viagra, body enhancing and stockmarket ones at least. Even so still I get about 12 rubbish ones a day through.

They say you need to enter the lottery to win... not true!!  I win the British lottery almost everyday, and I have never even entered it.   Lucky me!!

""As to where they got your address - well - a lot of people think that Rendo gives it out, one way or another.  See the community forum for examples.""

Kinda interesting since it was roughly december that I started winning the lottery everyday and seriously rich people overseas started dying and wanting to give me all the money.....

The e-card, postcard, greetingcard, yada yada is a new spam scam.  Ignore them.  They all have the same format:: "You've received a ... from a ....".  And Outlook proudly puts them right into the garbage bin (Deleted Items folder) - all of 'em.

There shouldn't be a hunting season for spammers.  Do they ever stop spamming?  Noooo.  So it should be just spammer hunting all year 'round. ;)

Quote - ""As to where they got your address - well - a lot of people think that Rendo gives it out, one way or another.  See the community forum for examples.""

Kinda interesting since it was roughly december that I started winning the lottery everyday and seriously rich people overseas started dying and wanting to give me all the money.....

No! They told me first! :glare:

Quote - Sam - I don't think those gigantic boobs would suit you.

No you fool, they weren't for me, they were for me, if you get my drift.

Honestly, some people.

Who needs pillz for giant boobs. You just spin the Size 8 dial to about 3.0. Oh wait, that doesn't work in the real world does it. Life really should be more like Poser.

Thunderbird does a pretty good job of filtering out junk email.

I don't have Rendo mail at all so they don't get my addy from here.

But think about it, anytime you do anything online, someone drops a cookie and you get spam.

You bank online, you buy something online or you visit some innocent looking web page, you get spam.

Same thing on snail mail, you go to a hospital, you apply for credit or anything like that and your mail box soon gets loaded.

Everybody sells your info even when they claim they don't.

Oh well, guess that's just life....sigh.

Yep, I won the UK lotto too. The prize should be getting here any day now. I'm the luckyest man alive. I'm in the big money now and the emails keep filling my box. Pretty soon I'll have won and inherited enough to retire my grand kid's grand kid's before they're even born. I quit my job yesterday. I'll never have to work again. 

I'll tell you - people want to 'save trees' and help fight global warming, then a big way to help is to federally (and maybe internationally) mandate stopping spam (both email and snail-mail).  Think about the waste in paper as 50% of your mail goes right into the trash because it's, well, unsolicited B.S.  And since email spam constitutes a large percentage of email traffic, the waste in energy transmitting it over the world is a waste.

Anyone catch the DateLine story on fake prescription drugs?  This society is a mess -  humans suck beans.  Greedy, loathsome creatures.  Nature always finds a way (Jurassic Park).  Anyone dreaming of the vast Human Galactic Empire might want to wake up.  In a million years, long after we're extinct, the cats will be the next sentient species - and with all of the observations of us, hopefully they'll avoid our neverending mistakes. ;P

Anyone catch the DateLine story on fake prescription drugs?  This society is a mess -  humans suck beans.  Greedy, loathsome creatures.  Nature always finds a way (Jurassic Park).  Anyone dreaming of the vast Human Galactic Empire might want to wake up.  In a million years, long after we're extinct, the cats will be the next sentient species - and with all of the observations of us, hopefully they'll avoid our neverending mistakes. ;P

kuroyume0161 That was deep! 
Never worry though, the transiter and chip makers just made another major breakthrough in nano technology. Soon our computers will be the size of a nickel or dime and a nine volt battery could run it for a year or two. Spam will flow like a river on a web that's fast enough to download a full length movie in about 2 minutes maybe 1. The language of the internet is going to be compressed and scrambled and liscenses for web realestate issued. All rogue malware and spam will be legalized like extortion was when banks and insurance companies started making people pay for insurance on loans. We'll all be dead and our decendants will be brainwashed into excepting the new way as the norm just as we are compared to our grandparents a hundred years ago.

Gotta leve the thread a bit, my brain is hurting.

Quote - The police called and said I cashed a check for 40,000 dollars someplace I can't even pronounce the name of and it bounced.

The proper pronunciation is: Ag-doog-doog-wango ;p

For those who don't get the reference, it is from Channel 4's (UK) new, hilarious show, Fonejacker. He does a variety of characters, one of whom just happens to be one "George 'you could not pronounce the surname' Agdgdgwngo",  a scammer from the Republic of Agdgdgwngo. Monies are often rewarded in sums of up to $86,000UGD (which works out to £17.52GBP). You need only provide your account number and sort code...

There is a bit of bad language in some of the calls, for those offended by such things.

believe it or not people do...my fav was something about a visit from the big dic* fairy...wth?
And all the emails from someone in africa who wants to launder millions thru you? 20/20 had a show on a lady who fell for this, they conned her into giving them her life savings.
 What i like are the spams in Russian. I wrote one and asked them if they could at least spam me in my own language. And the one from a guy in Nigeria whose father had stolen millions form the goernment and they were coming to get him and he wanted me to help get the money out. i replied that I was on their side. he actually answered saying he didnt understand me. i told him that he was a crook like his father and that i had called his secret police to help them find and imprison him. gee no answer after that.
:)

You know checks these days aren't safe on average accounts. I know of a case where somebody scaned a business' check and erased all the filled in info with a graphics program(except the signature) then printed a new check and made it out for a large sum and the bank cashed it. Now banks have special programs for a business with lots of money in their account because FDIC only insures you for X amount on checking accounts. If they steal more than the X amount your out of luck unless you have extra protection on the account. The banks have a system for logging the checks electronically as you write them so people can't scan and print fake checks like that. If a fake check hits the bank it's caught instead of cleared. The reason for the system is the shear volume of checks that get processed everyday. They make mistakes. It's like finding a needle in a hay stack. Then also is the people inside the bank to worry about. They're not all honest either. Watching that money go by until one day they snap.

I get a lot of those ecard spams, my host mail server blocks 99% of then, to bad we can't bounce them back to the sender.
One everyone needs to watch out for appears to be from your real bank, proper logo, phone numbers and everything, if you get one always call your bank 800 number first, my bank told me about this scam, Bank Of America. Hover over the link, you will see the real web address it's wants to goto.

Their stories are getting  a little better each time.  I just got a spam that said the Internal Monetary Fund has randomly selected me to be a receipent of a $1,800,000 re-developement grant and would I please claim it and use it on the behalf of my fellow citizens.  It was not mis-spelled this time.

I still can't believe anyone is stupid enough to fall for these. At least with junk mail you get through the post there's more chance of it being legit & of interest. Well, only slightly.

What I find odd is if I want to send out a bulk email for a concert for my husband's band...and these are folks who signed up to be on the list to get notice of when they are playing... I always get a warning about it from my isp. So how is it that these morons who want to enlarge everything on my body and give me the dead relative money and the viagra and the canadian medications can get through?
Marque

I suppose it depends on the ISP?

Depends on the direction.  Your ISP is probably monitoring outgoing for 'suspicious' spam-like emails (bulk) whereas you are only receiving one (or so) from each spammer.

I'd talk to your ISP about fixing that.  Let them know that you aren't spamming but bulk emailing.  In my case, my email server is right here and my internet account is unlimited business which means that I can send 1 billion emails a second if I like (won't but you get the point).

Quote - which means that I can send 1 billion emails a second if I like

kuroyume0161 - So it's you who's sending out all the viagra & penis enlargemnt emails to everyone.
Only kidding mate, thanks for the input.

Ahh haven't sent out a mail on this account yet, since it's a business account maybe I need to do the same. Since I changed isp's I don't get the spam I was getting before. I would get up to 250 emails a day before, now I get under 25 a day, so nice!

stormchaser: ;)

Marque: Enjoy the pristine account while it lasts.  I get at least 300 spams a day.  It's too late for this email account.  I've been using it for years and I'd like to change it soon but then all of my contacts would need to be udpated (both email and web).

I sort of put a halt to some of it by now having Firefox ask before saving cookies - regular sites are allowed, 'trusted' sites are allowed for session, everything else is blocked (esp. ad.xxxxx link cookies).  That and Outlook is set never to auto notify of receipt or reading of emails - this is one way that spammers validate their bank of email addresses (!).

Quote - What I find odd is if I want to send out a bulk email for a concert for my husband's band...and these are folks who signed up to be on the list to get notice of when they are playing... I always get a warning about it from my isp. So how is it that these morons who want to enlarge everything on my body and give me the dead relative money and the viagra and the canadian medications can get through?
Marque

There's a saying about the rules and regulations that rings too true to me:

Rules only keep the honest people out!

How odd said I don't get spam since I changed my email and that night I started getting it again. Makes you wonder if someone isn't selling email addys. Not saying Rendo but it does seem awful damned odd.

Has anybody ever noticed that no matter what spam you get, even the ones from so called "Executives" have a yahoo email addy?? I mean puuuleeease....what executive of a supposed multinational bank or large corporation would suffer through a yahoo email address when they can, I'm sure, afford a private one??... I have to agree that they're getting smarter, but if you check the return email address they always mess up...either they spell things wrong or expect everyone in the world to believe that very very wealthy executives would resort to yahoo.

I think we should start a collection of the worst spelled spam emails...could be a profit in that :o) heehee or we could spam incomprehensible emails back at them...telling them that they've won a years supply of dog food.. I have a thing called Mail Washer and it gives you the option of blacklisting the spam and bouncing it back at them... makes them think that your email is not in service. (I still kind of like the idea of spamming the spammers though..)

http://www.419eater.com/ if you want to see people doing just that ("taking advantage" of the scammers' own gullibility/desperation).

http://www.spamusement.com/ - people actually make up cartoons to illustrate the more "interesting" spam subject lines.