…that any email with the subject title “please this is not spam”—is.
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It’s a general rule… — 11 Comments
Yes indeed. Several days ago I discovered an e-mail in my spam folder with the header of “…spam fraud..”
My ISP had a period of a month or so this year where it didn’t handle the Nigerian scams well, but it is back to shunting them off into the spam folder.
Just a thought. The government seems to have unlimited money to spend, and is interested in knowing about things “fishy.”
I just got a strange email about an item that I was supposedly selling on e-bay. Which I’m not. Can’t figure out if it’s spam or a scam.
marine’s mom–although I have what is probably a pretty good spam filter, I still get crap in my in box from time to time and, as I understand it, if the sender is really computer savvy, just clicking on some of these items to find out what they contain can infect your computer with a virus.
So, my policy is that if I do not both recognize the sender and the reason he/she/it is sending this to me–most viruses like to get to your email program and mail copies of themselves to everyone in your address book–I delete it without clicking on it to see what it might contain. So, if it seems like the email might be from someone I know, but it references something that doesn’t make sense–a prize I won from a contest I never entered, confirmation information about something I never ordered, an event I never attended, some movie star gossip, important unspecified information–I delete it.
I may miss a legitimate email from time to time but, I figure that if it is important enough, the person emailing will call me on the telephone or even write me a letter if they really need to contact me.
P.S.–And, of course, if the email is from someone who I don’t know from Adam–I always like the ones from Simone or Guido, Mondo Weirdo or some such name–usually in all caps–it gets deleted right away.
It’s hard to take any e-mail I receive too seriously when my own e-mail address is listed as being the sender. Just how stupid do those spam folks think we all are?
anonymess–very stupid but, more importantly, in a hurry. They hope to slip their email in between legitimate email in the hope that people will just whisk throuh a figurative stack of email and unthinkingly click on their email along with the other legit ones.
Then, too, they play on curiosity and greed, and count on the fact that a lot of people would like to get free money–something for nothing–and expect somewhere in the back of their minds that this is really the way the world works.
I am reminded of the video of the credulous woman who told the reporter after one of the Obama rallies that, with Obama as President, “I won’t have to pay my apartment rent or fill my car’s gas tank.
Wolla Dalbo Says:
So, my policy is that if I do not both recognize the sender and the reason he/she/it is sending this to me—most viruses like to get to your email program and mail copies of themselves to everyone in your address book—I delete it without clicking on it to see what it might contain. So, if it seems like the email might be from someone I know, but it references something that doesn’t make sense—a prize I won from a contest I never entered, confirmation information about something I never ordered, an event I never attended, some movie star gossip, important unspecified information—I delete it.
P.S.—And, of course, if the email is from someone who I don’t know from Adam—I always like the ones from Simone or Guido, Mondo Weirdo or some such name—usually in all caps—it gets deleted right away.
2 thumbs up
Good advice for every one. Don’t get curious about what it might have to say or what the “catch” might be. Just delete and forget. In fact when you delete the message – empty your deleted message box immediately.
Correlary: any email that contain these words is also spam: “Right now, someone you know probably has a question about reform that could be answered by what’s below. So what are you waiting for? Forward this email.”
Dedicated to the task of making the scammers waste time and money for the amusement of the “scammed”.
(warning, some words, language, concepts quite possibly, even likely, considered offensive)
As they themselves put it: WARNING: SOME IMAGES CONTAIN MATURE LANGUAGE
(or immature depending on how you look at it!)
The goal is to get the scammer to send a picture of themself doing something stupid or holding some subtly insulting statement about themselves
One of the common tricks is to announce the “scammed” as a representative of the “church of loaves and fishes” and insist that they take a picture with a fish on their head and loaf of bread in their mouth. Like This or This Or This
When your rapaciousness or criminal intent (like setting up botnets) has taken from other people more hours than you have left in your own life, what is an appropriate and just punishment? What is an appropriate punishment when you have taken from other people ten or one hundred or one thousand times as much time as you have left in your life?
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Yes indeed. Several days ago I discovered an e-mail in my spam folder with the header of “…spam fraud..”
My ISP had a period of a month or so this year where it didn’t handle the Nigerian scams well, but it is back to shunting them off into the spam folder.
Just a thought. The government seems to have unlimited money to spend, and is interested in knowing about things “fishy.”
I just got a strange email about an item that I was supposedly selling on e-bay. Which I’m not. Can’t figure out if it’s spam or a scam.
marine’s mom–although I have what is probably a pretty good spam filter, I still get crap in my in box from time to time and, as I understand it, if the sender is really computer savvy, just clicking on some of these items to find out what they contain can infect your computer with a virus.
So, my policy is that if I do not both recognize the sender and the reason he/she/it is sending this to me–most viruses like to get to your email program and mail copies of themselves to everyone in your address book–I delete it without clicking on it to see what it might contain. So, if it seems like the email might be from someone I know, but it references something that doesn’t make sense–a prize I won from a contest I never entered, confirmation information about something I never ordered, an event I never attended, some movie star gossip, important unspecified information–I delete it.
I may miss a legitimate email from time to time but, I figure that if it is important enough, the person emailing will call me on the telephone or even write me a letter if they really need to contact me.
P.S.–And, of course, if the email is from someone who I don’t know from Adam–I always like the ones from Simone or Guido, Mondo Weirdo or some such name–usually in all caps–it gets deleted right away.
It’s hard to take any e-mail I receive too seriously when my own e-mail address is listed as being the sender. Just how stupid do those spam folks think we all are?
anonymess–very stupid but, more importantly, in a hurry. They hope to slip their email in between legitimate email in the hope that people will just whisk throuh a figurative stack of email and unthinkingly click on their email along with the other legit ones.
Then, too, they play on curiosity and greed, and count on the fact that a lot of people would like to get free money–something for nothing–and expect somewhere in the back of their minds that this is really the way the world works.
I am reminded of the video of the credulous woman who told the reporter after one of the Obama rallies that, with Obama as President, “I won’t have to pay my apartment rent or fill my car’s gas tank.
Wolla Dalbo Says:
So, my policy is that if I do not both recognize the sender and the reason he/she/it is sending this to me—most viruses like to get to your email program and mail copies of themselves to everyone in your address book—I delete it without clicking on it to see what it might contain. So, if it seems like the email might be from someone I know, but it references something that doesn’t make sense—a prize I won from a contest I never entered, confirmation information about something I never ordered, an event I never attended, some movie star gossip, important unspecified information—I delete it.
P.S.—And, of course, if the email is from someone who I don’t know from Adam—I always like the ones from Simone or Guido, Mondo Weirdo or some such name—usually in all caps—it gets deleted right away.
2 thumbs up
Good advice for every one. Don’t get curious about what it might have to say or what the “catch” might be. Just delete and forget. In fact when you delete the message – empty your deleted message box immediately.
Correlary: any email that contain these words is also spam: “Right now, someone you know probably has a question about reform that could be answered by what’s below. So what are you waiting for? Forward this email.”
If you want to be amused, I point y’all to
419Eater
Dedicated to the task of making the scammers waste time and money for the amusement of the “scammed”.
(warning, some words, language, concepts quite possibly, even likely, considered offensive)
As they themselves put it:
WARNING: SOME IMAGES CONTAIN MATURE LANGUAGE
(or immature depending on how you look at it!)
The goal is to get the scammer to send a picture of themself doing something stupid or holding some subtly insulting statement about themselves
One of the common tricks is to announce the “scammed” as a representative of the “church of loaves and fishes” and insist that they take a picture with a fish on their head and loaf of bread in their mouth.
Like This or This Or This
This one is one of my favorites, as they dragged it on and on, and apparently even managed to get the guy to shell out money for a hotel room
.
When your rapaciousness or criminal intent (like setting up botnets) has taken from other people more hours than you have left in your own life, what is an appropriate and just punishment? What is an appropriate punishment when you have taken from other people ten or one hundred or one thousand times as much time as you have left in your life?